Western Australia Government Railways 2-8-2 No. 1220
Bassendean, Western Australia, Australia 		Location: The Railway Museum
Status: Display
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Posted: Aug 13, 2018 @ 05:08:13 by Robin R Beck
A class 24 locomotives. The V class were built to operate coal trains at Collie. Later moved around the state working on heavy freight trains. 1220 worked from 1956 until withdrawn in 1972. Now at Bassendean railway museum.

Bassendean museum often has modern diesel locos passing through its property. Located behind the museum is UGL workshops that has built diesel locomotives in the past. Now mostly repairs or rebuilds. A rail track that goes through the middle of the museum property is the only entry or exit from the locomotive works. This track splits the public area of the museum from the storage and workshop of the museum.

Posted: May 31, 2017 @ 04:05:01 by Doug Bailey
The V-class locomotives were built by Robert Stephenson & Hawthorns Ltd under subcontract to Beyer-Peacock & Co, who were unable to fill the WAGR order for 24 V-class 2-8-2 main-line freight engines within the required delivery timeframe. V 1220 was built in 1955 as Robert Stephenson & Hawthorn Ltd builders number 7789, and also carries Beyer Peacock & Co builders number 7745.
Posted: Mar 11, 2008 @ 03:03:50 by Steve Frost
A fine example of what a British builder could produce when freed of the restrictions of the UK structure gauge. Mikados were only built by one company, the LNER and they didn't survive into preservation - the freight locos were too powerful for the archaic unbraked freight operations of the 1930's and the express passenger ones were rebuilt as rather ungainly pacifics, unloved by most enthusiasts.