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700 Series Locomotives of the South Australian Railways

by Colquhoun, Stewien &

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Adelaide, South Australia, Australia: Australian Railway Historical Society (SA), 1979. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Poor/No Jacket. 50 pages b/w photos - The first South Australian Railways 700 Class locomotives were built during the mid 1920s in Great Britain by the Armstrong Whitworth Company and were used as main line freight locomotives, releasing the aged small power Rx-class fleet for shunting and branch line services. The difference in power between these two classes can be gauged by the fact that a 700 could lift 390 tons over Mt Lofty while an Rx could manage only 190 tons. The 700-class Mikado type locomotive proved so successful that another ten were ordered, this time from the SAR's own Islington Workshops. Though dimensionally similar to the original engines they differed in some minor details and as a result were classified 710. Unfortunately the Mikado fleet were all sent to the breakers yard for scrap metal during the 1960s. One example of the Class survives as a static exhibit at the National Railway Museum at Port Adelaide.

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Title
700 Series Locomotives of the South Australian Railways
Author
Colquhoun, Stewien &
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2nd Edition
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Australian Railway Historical Society (SA)
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Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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1979
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