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All engines were given new four-figure numbers, the first two digits indicating the class and the second two, the engine number, arranged in chronological order of commencement of service. When the number of engines in a class exceeded 99, the class number (first two digits) was increased by 1, e.g., the 137th engine of the 32-class was 3337.
The first example was retired in February 1957, and the engine fleet gradually reduced to 33 by July 1965, and further down to only 3 by mid-1971. [6] Finally, the last engine, No. 3085, was taken out of service on 22 February 1973, making it the second-last steam locomotive to remain in operation on the NSWGR. [9] [10]
The first locomotive to be converted was Engine No. 3088 which was delivered by Clyde Engineering on 22 August 1928. This company delivered a total of 10 conversions of these engines, the remainder being carried out at the New South Wales Government Railways' Eveleigh Railway Workshops. All of the engines were completed by July 1933. [2]
The Z24 class (formerly B55 class) was a two-cylinder, non-condensing, saturated 2-6-0 ‘ Mogul‘ type steam engine built by Dübs & Company for the New South Wales Government Railways of Australia.
Three have been preserved: 1301 by the NSW Rail Museum, initially at Enfield Locomotive Depot, then Thirlmere from 1975 [5]; 1307 by the New South Wales Transport Museum, initially at Enfield Locomotive Depot, then Thirlmere from 1975, transferred to Yass Railway Heritage Centre in 1999 [6]
The fuel oil was injected into the firebox by a jet of steam from the locomotive boiler, the flow being controlled by the fireman. The first six locomotives converted were fitted to burn distillate which was five times the cost of coal firing, although it was hoped that reduced servicing times would offset some of that extra cost.
With the arrival of even larger engines from 1909 to handle the important mail and express trains, the P class were redeployed to other passenger services. In November 1929 they were used on the inaugural Newcastle Flyers. [5] They also began hauling the Caves Express to Mount Victoria and the South Coast Daylight Express to Bomaderry. [1]
The New South Wales C38 class, occasionally known as the 38 class and nicknamed "Pacifics" by some railwaymen, was a class of 4-6-2 passenger steam locomotives built by Eveleigh Railway Workshops, Clyde Engineering and Cardiff Locomotive Workshops, for the New South Wales Government Railways in Australia.