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New South Wales M36 class locomotive

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Power type
  
Steam

Build date
  
1870-77

Configuration
  
0-4-2

Serial number
  
36-39,77-78

Total produced
  
8

New South Wales M36 class locomotive

Builder
  
Mort's Dock (4) Eveleigh Railway Workshops (4)

The M36 class (X10 class post 1924) was a class of steam locomotives built for the New South Wales Government Railways in Australia.

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History

In the late 1860s four more of the 1 class where manufactured by Mort's Dock Sydney in 1870-71. Another four locomotives of the M.36 class were manufactured at Eveleigh Railway Workshops in 1876-77 using re-built tenders from Locomotive No.1-4. Two of the class later had cab shelters fitted to the tenders for suburban running.

Preservation

All engines of the class were scrapped in the period 1891-1904 with the exception of No. 78

References

New South Wales M36 class locomotive Wikipedia