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Queensland B17 class locomotive
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by North Ipswich Railway Workshops· from 1911· class of 21 Australian 4-6-0 locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. ITM3580359 LOCO B17 CLASS LOCOMOTIVE No 681 IPSWICH-B17 Dept No.QSA0901 E217: Queensland State Archives· CC0
what is it?
The Queensland Railways B17 class locomotive was a class of 4-6-0 steam locomotives operated by the Queensland Railways.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 115 years ago, in 1911.
- 16.5 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1911
- in service from
- 1911
- status
- retired
- number built
- 21
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- North Ipswich Railway Workshops
- operators
- Queensland Rail
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 4-6-0
- length
- 16.5 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q28126933, Wikipedia: Queensland B17 class locomotive (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.