K 151

Oldest of the surviving K-class

 

K 151 lurking stripped and tenderless in the gloom at the rear of Newport Workshops on 10 May 2003.

(Unfortunately my camera wasn't really up to the low light conditions.)

K 151 was built by the Victorian Railways' Newport Workshops in 1940 to the successful K-class 2-8-0 locomotive design for branch-line work.

I believe K 151 ended its career as a stationary boiler. It is now owned by Steamrail Victoria and stored stripped and tenderless in the depths of Newport Workshops, ostensibly as a potential donor of heavy spares for sister K-class locomotives which are preserved in working order.

References

a

‘A brief history of Preserved Rolling Stock of Victoria’

by Norm Bray, Peter J Vincent and Daryl M Gregory.

Published by Brief History Books, PO Box 437, Sunbury, Vic 3429.

b

ARHS (Victorian Division) 'North Williamstown Railway Museum',

Third Edition 1968, revised 1977, reprinted 1980.

c

‘Locomotives of Australia - 1985 to 2010’

(Fifth Edition), by Leon Oberg,

published 2010 by Rosenberg Publishing Pty Ltd.

d

Wikipedia page for VR K-class locomotives:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_Railways_K_class

Retrieved 21 February 2023

Page updated: 21 February 2023

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