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Locomotive at Adelaide Railway Station [PRG 327/24/17] • Photograph

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Summary

Half-plate glass negative of a train pulled by locomotive arriving at Adelaide Railway Station. The Fowlers 'Lion' factory is to the left and the Morphett Street bridge behind the train. According to a researcher, the locomotive class is 600 not 500. This can be verified by the air receiver being partly above the running board to clear the larger driving wheels fitted to the 600 class locomotives, this feature of the higher mounted air receiver was only seen on the 600 class. Also the number "602" is inscribed in chalk on small toolbox on pilot beam suggesting that it is in fact locomotive 602.

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Physical description

1 photograph : glass, negative, black and white ; 16.4 x 12 cm

Dates / Publication details

Approximately 1930

Collection

Part of General Collection

Subject

Locomotives -- South Australia

Catalogue record

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Historical information

Ten 500 class locomotives were built for South Australian Railways by Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth & Co Ltd at Scotswood, England, in 1926. They regularly worked the 'Overland' express between Adelaide and Tailem Bend. The were condemned in the late 1950s and and early 1960s.

Digitisation information

Date

09/08/2016

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

13,128 x 9,783 pixels (128.4 MP)

Size

128.45 MB

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