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No.2 Hunslet Engine Company b/n 1229 of 1916 |
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No.2 (formerly WD xxx) in
storage at Woodford on 12 April 2003.
(Alas the narrow gap between storage sidings made
photography difficult.)
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Builder |
Hunslet
Engine Company Ltd, |
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Builder’s Number & Year |
1229 of 1916 |
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Wheel Arrangement |
4-6-0T |
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This
locomotive is one of 155 ‘War Office’ class 4-6-0T engines constructed by
Hunslet for the British Army for use by the War Department Light Railways supplying
the front-line trenches during World War 1. (I am unsure what number it
carried in War Department service; further information welcome.) These
locomotives became surplus at the end of hostilities, with 15 War Office
Hunslets subsequently sold for use in the Australian sugar-cane industry. For
further information about the War Office Hunslet locomotives, refer to sister
War Department No.306. Two
War Office Hunslets went to Cattle Creek Mill at Finch Hatton near Mackay,
with this preserved loco becoming No.2 on the mill roster. During its working
years at Cattle Creek it received a number of modifications (in common with
other War Office Hunslets) including an extended smokebox. No.2 was withdrawn
from cane haulage duties in 1963 and stored before being donated to the Australian
Narrow Gauge Railway Museum Society (ANGRMS). After a period of storage in Brisbane
it arrived at ANGRMS site in Woodford in 1983, where it remains in open
storage in company with various other locos. The
Australian Narrow Gauge Railway Museum Society website
provides additional technical details for Cattle Creek Mill No.2. |
References
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a |
Light
Railway Research Society of Australia Inc. Web site 'Preserved
Australian Sugar Cane Locomotives' list |
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b |
Wikipedia
page for Hunslet Engine Company, Leeds,
England, retrieved 19 September 2018 |
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c |
Australian Narrow Gauge Railway Museum
Society website, retrieved 7 October 2018 |
Page updated: 7 October 2018
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