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New South Wales E17 class locomotive
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Robert Stephenson and Company· from 1865· class of 23 Australian 0-6-0 locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. NSWGR Locomotive Class E.17 b: NSWGR Archives· Public domain
what is it?
The E.17 class is a class of patent long boiler steam locomotive built by the Robert Stephenson and Company for the New South Wales Government Railways of Australia.
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 161 years ago, in 1865.
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1865
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 23
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Robert Stephenson and Company, Mort's Dock
- designer
- Robert Stephenson & Company
- operators
- New South Wales Government Railways
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- wheel arrangement
- 0-6-0
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q16926660, Wikipedia: New South Wales E17 class locomotive (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.