South Australian Railways 400 class Beyer-Garratt articulated locomotive | |
Powertype: | Steam |
Builder: | Société Franco-Belge, Raismes, France under licence from Beyer, Peacock & Co. Ltd, Gorton, UK |
Serialnumber: | Beyer, Peacock: 7622–7631 Franco-Belge: 2973–2982 |
Builddate: | 1952–1953 |
Whytetype: | 4-8-2+2-8-4 (Garratt) |
Uicclass: | (2′D1′)(2′D1′) h4t |
Driverdiameter: | 4feet |
Totalproduction: | 10 |
Length: | 87feet over coupling points |
Locoweight: | 148.955LT |
Weightondrivers: | 84.9LT |
Fueltype: | Oil |
Fuelcap: | 1680impgal |
Watercap: | 3700impgal |
Boilerpressure: | 2000NaN0 |
Firearea: | 49square feet |
Totalsurface: | 1970square feet |
Superheaterarea: | 390square feet |
Cylindercount: | Four, outside |
Cylindersize: | 16x |
Tractiveeffort: | 435201NaN1 |
Factorofadhesion: | 4.37 |
Operator: | South Australian Railways |
Fleetnumbers: | 400–409 |
Firstrundate: | 1953 |
Preservedunits: | 2 |
The South Australian Railways 400 class comprised ten 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 narrow-gauge line from the New South Wales/South Australia border to smelters at Port Pirie until 1963, when they were replaced by diesel locomotives. They also operated on the line to the break-of-gauge station at Terowie. Some locomotives were returned to service in 1969 while narrow gauge diesel locomotives were converted to . Subsequently some were stored at Peterborough before being scrapped.[1]
Two have been preserved, in static condition: