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500B 4-8-4 express passenger locomotives

504 on static display at the National Railway Museum. Photo. Thomas Marschall

 

 

Original owner: South Australian Railways

Gauge: 5' 3"

Built: Sir W.G Armstrong Whitworth and Co., Newcastle-on-Tyne, England

Entered Service: mid 1920's

Length: 84ft 2in

Weight: 222tons 6cwt

Boiler pressure: 200psi

Tractive Effort: 59,000lbs

Water Capacity: 8,000 gallons

Coal Capacity: 11tons

Number in class: 10

Preserved:

504, Tom Barr Smith -  NRM