The South Australian Railways Ge Class Locomotives were built by Beyer, Peacock and Company for the Glenelg Railway Company in 1897. They entered service as numbers 11 and 12. On the 16th of December 1899 they entered service on the South Australian Railways after the purchase of the Glenelg Railway Company in 1899. The SAR classed these locomotives a Ge and numbered them 165 and 166. Ge class No. 166 was condemned on the 8th of April 1929 and Ge class No. 165 was condemned on the 4th of June 1935. They were both eventually scrapped.[1][2]
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^Fluck, R. E.; Sampson, R.; Bird, K. J. (1986). Steam locomotives and railcars of the South Australian Railways. South Australia: Mile End Railway Museum (S.A.) Inc. pp. 47–50. ISBN0959 5073 37.