K 169

Statically displayed at Coal Creek

 

K 169 at the railway station exhibit at the Coal Creek museum, Easter 1998.

Steam blows from the whistle and K 169 looks ready to depart... but she hasn't turned a wheel in decades!

K 169 was built by the Victorian Railways' Newport Workshops in 1941 to the successful K-class 2-8-0 locomotive design for branch-line work.

K 169 and several carriages are displayed at a recreated station scene at the Coal Creek Museum, Korumburra. Live steam piped to the whistle and cylinder drain cocks to give the impression of K 169 being ready to depart the station, although it never has! Visitors to the locomotive cab regularly pull the whistle cord, sending a shrill toot echoing around the extensive grounds of the Coal Creek museum.

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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