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Victorian Railways X class
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Phoenix Foundry· from 1886· class of 15 Australian 0-6-0 locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. X 357 at Newport Workshops: Victorian Railways· Public domain
what is it?
The Victorian Railways X class was a class of 0-6-0 mainline goods locomotives operated by the Victorian Railways between 1886 and 1920.
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 140 years ago, in 1886.
- Weighs about as much as 7 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 14.6 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 34 years (1886–1920).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1886–1887
- in service from
- 1886
- retired
- 1920
- status
- retired
- number built
- 15
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Phoenix Foundry
- operators
- Victorian Railways
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- wheel arrangement
- 0-6-0
- length
- 14.6 m
- weight
- 41.7 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q106764230, Wikipedia: Victorian Railways X class (1886) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.