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No. 5 Ex-Bingera Mill |
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No 5 at the head of a train of toast-rack carriages on the
Dreamworld Railway, Coomera on 14 December 2001.
The locomotive has been ‘westernised’
somewhat via a prominent cow-catcher, livery and detailing on the sand domes.
Photo courtesy of Mark Gough.
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Builder |
Mile
End, Adelaide |
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Builder’s Number & Year |
5643.51.1 of 1951 |
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Wheel Arrangement |
0-6-2T |
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This
Perry locomotive was formerly No.5 on the roster of Bingera Mill (now part of
the Bundaberg Sugar group), which is located 22km south-west of Bundaberg. According
to Wikipedia, Adelaide company Perry Engineering Co. Ltd built a total of 19
steam locomotives for various Australian sugar mills, of which 16 locomotive are
listed here as surviving in preservation. No.
5 has had a number of homes during its preservation career, starting with the
Goulburn Museum of Historic Engines where it featured within the large
locomotive collection based there in the 1970's. By the 1980’s it had moved
to the Dreamworld Railway at Coomera on the Gold Coast, Qld, where it shared
operational duties with Baldwin locomotive on the circular railway around the
Dreamworld theme park. Here I understand it was commonly known as ‘Perry’ and
featured a somewhat Americanised appearance. In
2013, the Dreamworld theme park scaled back its railway's steam program by
replacing most of its operations with a steam outline locomotive. Their
Baldwin locomotive still runs on occasion, but No.5 ‘Perry’ was donated to the
Australian Narrow Gauge Railway Museum Society (ANGRMS) and transferred
to their Woodford Railway, where it arrived on 6 November 2014. I understand No 5 ‘Perry’ is generally maintained
in operational status at the Woodford Railway. The
following Courier Mail news item details the locomotive’s move to ANGRMS
Woodford: |
References
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Light
Railway Research Society of Australia Inc. Web site 'Preserved
Australian Sugar Cane Locomotives' list |
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b |
Wikipedia page
for Perry
Engineering Co Ltd, |
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c |
Courier Mail news report of 13 November 2014 ‘Dreamworld Perry
Steam Locomotive arrives at |
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