Victorian Railways N class
The N class was a branch line steam locomotive that ran on the Victorian Railways (VR) from 1925 to 1966. A development of the successful K class 2-8-0, it was the first VR locomotive class designed for possible conversion from 5 ft 3 in to 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in standard gauge.
Victorian Railways N class
N 110, in an official VR photograph c.1936, shows a dramatically altered appearance after being equipped with Modified Front End and booster engine.
N 432 in static preservation at the Newport Railway Museum. The final iteration of the N class, it features a revised cab design, including an automatic staff exchange apparatus), boxpok driving wheels, combustion chamber firebox, and revised Witte-pattern smoke deflectors. Its green and gold livery was applied to N 430 for the 1951 Centenary-Jubilee train.
The Victorian Railways (VR), trading from 1974 as VicRail, was the state-owned operator of most rail transport in the Australian state of Victoria from 1859 to 1983. The first railways in Victoria were private companies, but when these companies failed or defaulted, the Victorian Railways was established to take over their operations. Most of the lines operated by the Victorian Railways were of 5 ft 3 in. However, the railways also operated up to five 2 ft 6 in narrow gauge lines between 1898 and 1962, and a 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in standard gauge line between Albury and Melbourne from 1961.
Preserved S303 in Victorian Railways blue and gold livery in Seymour, Victoria
The Spirit of Progress headed by S301 Sir Thomas Mitchell near Kilmore East in 1938
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