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Victorian Railways Z class
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Phoenix Foundry· from 1893· class of 3 Australian 2-4-0T locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Victorian Railways Z-Class Locomotive: Fartracer· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Victorian Railways Z class were three locomotives built in 1893 in Victoria, Australia. The class is unusual in that the third member of the class bore little resemblance to the first two. One example of the class is preserved, and survives at the Scienceworks Museum in Melbourne.
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 133 years ago, in 1893.
- Served for 85 years (1893–1978).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1893
- in service from
- 1893
- retired
- 1978
- status
- retired
- number built
- 3
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Phoenix Foundry, Newport Workshops
- operators
- Victorian Railways
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,600 mm Irish broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-4-0T
- length
- 7.2 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7927296, Wikipedia: Victorian Railways Z class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.