Wallaby | |
Powertype: | Steam |
Builder: | Hawthorn Leslie and Company Newcastle-on-Tyne |
Serialnumber: | 2988 |
Builddate: | 1913 |
Totalproduction: | 1 |
Whytetype: | 0-4-0ST |
Driverdiameter: | 3feet |
Locoweight: | 16.751NaN1 |
Boilerpressure: | 1202NaN2 |
Operator: | Hoskins Lithgow Steel Works |
Withdrawndate: | 19 November 1962 |
Disposition: | Static display |
NSW Wallaby was a steam locomotive seeing service in New South Wales.
Wallaby was built for the Hoskin Lithgow Steel Works to serve the No. 2 blast furnace plant in 1913. The locomotive was transferred to Port Kembla by Australian Iron and Steel Ltd. (AIS) in 1932. [1]
In 1933 Wallaby spent a period at South Kembla Colliery before returning to AIS.
Withdrawn from service at Port Kembla on 19 November 1962 "Wallaby" was placed on static display 5 June 1963. The locomotive was donated to the Illawarra Light Railway Museum in December 1979.