#0270
NZR F class
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Vulcan Foundry· from 1872· class of 88 New Zealand 0-6-0ST locomotives
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3 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. NZR F 230 (13666616774): GPS 56 from New Zealand· CC BY 2.0
- 2. F class locomotive NZ: Unknown photographer· Public domain
- 3. NZR F Class No. 230: Johnragla· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The NZR F class was the first important class of steam locomotive built to operate on New Zealand's railway network after the national gauge of 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) was adopted. The first locomotives built for the new gauge railways were two E class double Fairlies for the Dunedin and Port Chalmers Railway Company. The F class was the first class ordered by the central government, and between 1872 and 1888, a total of eighty-eight members of the class were constructed.
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 154 years ago, in 1872.
- Served for 92 years (1872–1964).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1872
- in service from
- 1872
- retired
- 1964
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 88
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Vulcan Foundry, Robert Stephenson and Company, Yorkshire Engine Company, Black, Hawthorn and Company, Neilson and Company, Dübs and Company, Avonside Engine Company
- operators
- New Zealand Railways Department, New Zealand Ministry of Works
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 0-6-0
- length
- 7 m
- nicknames
- Peveril/Edie Ochiltree (13), Meg Merrilies (180), Rob Roy (111), Ada (233), McCallum Mhor (248)
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q6956208, Wikipedia: NZR F class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.