Queensland A10 Ipswich class locomotive

For other uses, see A10 class.

Queensland A10 Ipswich class locomotive

300px Queensland A10 Ipswich class locomotive no. 36

Type and origin Power type Steam Builder North Ipswich Railway Workshops Build date 1877

Specifications Configuration 2-4-0 Gauge 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) Cylinders Two, outside

Career Operators Queensland Railways Class A10

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Number 36, photographed circa 1880

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Rebuilt number 36 operating with Fairymead Mill, photographed circa 1896

The A10 Ipswich class steam locomotive was a 2-4-0 locomotive of the Queensland Railways (QR).

The locomotives operated on 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) gauge. The "A", is used to identify the number of coupled wheels, being four coupled wheels for the A10 class, followed by numerals indicating the cylinder diameter of ten inches (254 mm). Ipswich indicates that the builder was the North Ipswich Railway Workshops.

Overview

Information about the locomotives is sketchy and it is not known how many were built. All had been sold or scrapped by 1900 so the class is not listed on the Queensland's Railways Interest Group website. The following information about no.36 is quoted from the caption to the photograph (bottom right):

"Steam locomotive with a group of men gathered around it, ca. 1880 This locomotive has a plate on the side of the cabin with the words 'Railway Works Ipswich Queensland 1877' inscribed. The locomotive was built at North Ipswich Railway Workshops in 1877. It was known as an A10 class steam locomotive (or an Ipswich A10). It ran on the southern and western railway, as Locomotive 36, until 1881 when it operated on the Bundaberg Railway. In 1890 it was sold to contractors building part of the Bundaberg - Gladstone railway and in 1892 sold again to Young Brothers of Fairymead Mill, Bundaberg. It was used initially on trains at Avonside, then at the mill at North Bundaberg. Its boiler exploded at Avondale in the early 1890s. In 1935 it was replaced by a locomotive purchased from Mount Lyall in Tasmania but its remains were not disposed of until 1951."

See also

• List of Queensland steam locomotives
• Rail transport in Queensland