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Queensland BB18¼ class locomotive
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Vulcan Foundry· from 1950· class of 55 Australian 4-6-2 locomotives
7 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. 1072 at the Top Points station on the Lithgow Zig Zag railway line: Richard Taylor· CC BY 2.0
- 2. Queensland BB18¼ class locomotive: TripleThree· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3. 1072 passing Bottom Points Signal Box on the Lithgow Zig Zag railway line: Richard Taylor· CC BY 2.0
- 4. Loco Shed of the Zig Zag Railway - June 2009: Merryjack· CC BY 2.0
- 5. Rear view of steam locomotive 1072 "City of Lithgow": Maksym Kozlenko· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 6. Steam engine 1072 at Zigzag railway at Lithgow, NSW: Maxim75· Public domain
- 7. Steam loco 1072 'The City of Lithgow' - NSW Blue Mountains - January 2008: Jack Heywood· Public domain
what is it?
The Queensland Railways BB18¼ class locomotive is a class of 4-6-2 steam locomotives operated by the Queensland Railways.
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 76 years ago, in 1950.
- 18.3 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 20 years (1950–1970).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1950–1958
- in service from
- 1950
- retired
- 1970
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 55
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Vulcan Foundry, Walkers Limited
- operators
- Queensland Rail
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 4-6-2
- length
- 18.3 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7270906, Wikipedia: Queensland BB18¼ class locomotive (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.