#0636
Victorian Railways E class
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Phoenix Foundry· from 1888· class of 71 Australian 2-4-2T locomotives
8 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Maldon loco: Bjenks· CC BY 3.0
- 2. Kitson locomotive 'Tasmania. Later Victorian Railways E426: Alzaar Ahmed· CC0
- 3. Victorian Railways E class locomotive No. 236 at the Newport Railway Museum - May 2017 - 01: nzsteam· CC BY 2.0
- 4. Victorian Railways E class locomotive No. 236 at the Newport Railway Museum - May 2017 - 02: nzsteam· CC BY 2.0
- 5. Victorian Railways E class locomotive No. 369 at the Newport Railway Museum - May 2017: nzsteam· CC BY 2.0
- 6. Victorian Railways E class locomotive No. 371 at the Goldfields Railway - April 2012: Roger G· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 7. Victorian Railways E class locomotive No. 371 at the Goldfields Railway - May 2014: nzsteam· CC BY 2.0
- 8. Victorian Railways E class locomotive No. 371 at the Goldfields Railway - October 2014: Mertie .· CC BY 2.0
what is it?
The E class is a class of suburban tank steam locomotive that ran on Australia's Victorian Railways (VR).
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 138 years ago, in 1888.
- Weighs about as much as 9 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 10.3 m long: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 64 years (1889–1953).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1888–1894
- in service from
- 1889
- retired
- 1953
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 71
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Phoenix Foundry, David Munro and Company, Kitson and Company
- designer
- Edward Alexander Jeffreys
- operators
- Victorian Railways, South Australian Railways
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- wheel arrangement
- 2-4-2
- length
- 10.3 m
- weight
- 53.8 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7927266, Wikipedia: Victorian Railways E class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.