This ranks as largest and most powerful passenger engine in Australasia; introduced with view to obviating double heading on interstate expresses and shortening running time of these trains between Melbourne and Albury; recently completed at workshops of Victorian Railways at Newport, Melbourne; hand-operated shaker or rocker grate with front drop grate is fitted, each side of grate being operated separately; engine frames are of caststeel bar type with forged-steel extension pieces bolted in. (see also Modern Transport, vol. 19, no. 480, May 26, 1928, p. 3, 2 figs)
New three-cylinder pacific locomotive, Victorian railways
Ry. Gaz.
Railway Gazette and Railway News ; 48 , n 26
1928
2 pages
2 Figs.
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
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