2413

Junee Roundhouse Museum

Builder

Dubs & Co, Glasgow

Builder’s Number & Year

2635 of 1891

Wheel Arrangement

2-6-0

No. in class

25

The B(55) class 2-6-0 locomotives (later renamed the (Z)24 class) were ordered at a time when the NSWGR was desperately short of motive power.  They were pooled with the similar but earlier B(205) / (Z)25 class 2-6-0 locomotives on main-line freight duties until displaced by “Standard Goods” 2-8-0 engines, gravitating to secondary lines before also being ousted from that role in the 1930’s by newly converted (C)30T class engines.  Some (Z)24’s continued in shunting roles, while many were sold to private users including collieries and sand & gravel quarries.

2413 was sold by the NSWGR to the Electricity Commission of NSW in 1961 for shunting duties at the Bunnerong Power Station, Port Botany where it became No.6.  The Electricity Commission operated a number of (Z)24 class locomotives at this site, 2408 (No. 7), 2413 (No.6), 2414 (No.5) and 2423 together with a (Z)20 class locomotive.

2413 / No.6 was last in use at the Bunnerong Power Station in 1975.  Upon retirement it was donated by the Electricity Commission of NSW to the ARHS Canberra and placed on display at the Canberra Railway Museum.

2413 was subsequently towed by rail to the Junee Roundhouse Museum in 24 & 25 May 2002.  I understand it has been placed on static display within the roundhouse; further information and photographs are welcome.

a

"A Compendium of New South Wales Steam Locomotives" compiled by Alex Grunbach,

published by the Australian Railway Historical Society, New South Wales Division, 1989.

b

'Light Railways - Australia's Magazine of Industrial & Narrow Gauge Railways',

Number 166, August 2002, Page 28.

Published by Light Railway Research Society of Australia Inc.

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