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The A10 Baldwin class steam locomotive was a 4-4-0 locomotive of the Queensland Railways (QR). [1]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.
They were introduced in 1911 by Charles Bowen-Cooke. [3] A total of 245 were built for the LNWR, [3] of which 135 were built at Crewe between 1911 and 1919, [4] and unusually for the LNWR, 110 were contracted out: 20 were built by the North British Locomotive Company in 1915–1916, [5] and ninety were built by William Beardmore & Co. in 1921–1922.
Works number Great Northern Railways number CS number Bowen Railways number Queensland Railways number In service Notes 4594 5 3 178 1882 Sold to contractor O’Rourke & McSharry, repurchased 1887 as no.3, transferred to Cairns May 1888, hired to contractor John Robb until 1891, sold to Cairns-Mulgrave Tramway 1896, reacquired with tramway September 1911, scrapped August 1913
The LNWR 1185 Class was a class of 0-8-2T steam tank locomotives designed by Charles Bowen-Cooke and introduced in 1911. They passed into LMS ownership in 1923 and 8 survived to British Railways ownership in 1948. British Railways numbers were 47875-47896 (with gaps).
Toggle Locomotives of the North London Railway subsection. 4.1 William Adams ... Bowen Cooke arranged exchanges with other railways in 1909 and 1910 to assess the ...
A heavy-haul railway line was built from Blackwater to the coal fields at Laleham in 1970. A heavy-haul railway was built from Rangal (west of Blackwater) to the coal fields at Kinrola in 1967. This line was extended to the Rolleston coal mine in 2006. This is the first new non-urban railway in Queensland for 23 years, and reflects the upswing ...
The London and North Western Railway (LNWR) Class G2A was a class of 0-8-0 steam locomotives. They were upgraded from LNWR Class G1 principally by the fitting of a higher pressure boiler. Some of the G2As subsequently received lower pressure boilers on overhaul, taking them back into Class G1.
In 1882, the Baldwin Locomotive Works delivered two 2-8-0 to the Queensland Railways’ Central Railway at Bowen.Per Queensland Railway's classification system they were designated the C16 class, C representing they had four driving axles, and the 16 the cylinder diameter in inches.
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