WAGR B class | |
Powertype: | Steam |
Builder: | Kitson & Co (8) Dübs & Co (3) |
Serialnumber: | 1st batch: 2591-2592 2nd batch: 2153, 2185, 2186 3rd batch: 3780-3785 |
Builddate: | 1884-86, 1898 |
Totalproduction: | 11 |
Whytetype: | 4-6-0T |
Fueltype: | Coal |
Watercap: | 1st & 2nd batches: 600impgal 3rd batch: 1000impgal |
Boilerpressure: | 1602NaN2 |
Firearea: | 1st & 2nd batches: 10.3square feet 3rd batch: 11.7square feet |
Tractiveeffort: | 142392NaN2 |
Operator: | Western Australian Government Railways |
Fleetnumbers: | B8-B9, B12-B14, B180-B185 |
Disposition: | all scrapped |
The WAGR B class was a class of 4-6-0T tank locomotives operated by the Western Australian Government Railways (WAGR) between 1884 and 1959.
The first two were ordered from Kitson & Co, Leeds in 1884 to work the steeply graded Eastern Railway from Guildford to Chidlow. A further three were built by Dübs & Co, Glasgow in 1885/86 and a further six by Kitson & Co in 1898. The last batch were built with larger water tanks, with the earlier five having larger tanks retrofitted. In 1903, they were displaced by the K class and relegated to shunting duties.[1] [2]
The numbers and periods in service of each member of the B class were as follows:[3]
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The B class designation was reused in the 1960s when the B class diesel locomotives entered service.