South Australian Railways 400 class
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![]() Preserved Beyer-Garratt loco 409 at the National Railway Museum, Port Adelaide | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The South Australian Railways 400 class was a class of 4-8-2+2-8-4 articulated steam locomotives built in France in 1952 and 1953 under licence to Beyer, Peacock & Co. Ltd, Manchester, UK. The locomotives mainly hauled ore on the 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) narrow gauge line from the SA/NSW border to smelters at Port Pirie until 1963, when they were replaced by diesel locomotives. They also operated on the lines to Terowie and Quorn. Some locomotives were returned to service in 1969 while narrow gauge diesel locomotives were converted to 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge. Subsequently some were stored at Peterborough before being scrapped.[1]
Two have been preserved, in static condition:
- No. 402 at the Zig Zag Railway, Lithgow[2]
- No. 409 at the National Railway Museum, Port Adelaide.[3]
Gallery[]
General arrangement of the 400 class Beyer-Garratt (click to enlarge)
Preserved Garratt 409 at the National Railway Museum, Port Adelaide
In 1968, Garratts 402 (leading) and 401 ready to depart Jamestown for Peterborough and the New South Wales border
Garratts 402 and 401 at Jamestown in the late 1960s
Notes[]
References[]
- ^ "3801 A Legend in Steam". YouTube. 15 July 2015.
- ^ "Steam locomotives". Zig Zag Railway. Zig Zag Railway Co-op Ltd. 2019. Retrieved 29 December 2019.
- ^ "Locomotive 409". National Railway Museum, Port Adelaide.
Select bibliography[]
- Durrant, A.E. (1987), Garratt locomotives of the world, Bracken Books, ISBN 1-85170-141-9
- Smith, J.D.H. (2009). "South Australian Railways steam locomotives".
- Oberg, Leon (2007), Locomotives of Australia: 1850s–2007, Rosenberg Publishing, pp. 271–272, ISBN 1877058548
External links[]
Media related to South Australian Railways 400 class locomotives at Wikimedia Commons
- Locomotive Specifications at SteamLocomotive.com
- Franco-Belge locomotives
- Beyer, Peacock locomotives
- 4-8-2+2-8-4 locomotives
- Garratt locomotives
- South Australian Railways steam locomotives
- Railway locomotives introduced in 1953
- 3 ft 6 in gauge locomotives of Australia
- Steam locomotive stubs
- South Australia rail transport stubs
- Freight locomotives