Western Australia Government Railways 4-6-2 No. 521 'Ashburton'
Bassendean, Western Australia, Australia 		Location: The Railway Museum at Bassendean
Status: Display
Posted: Aug 13, 2018 @ 04:08:08 by Robin R Beck
The Midland workshops built 10 locomotives to the P class design, but with higher boiler pressure, called the Pr class. 1941 to 1944 a further 8 P class were also converted to Pr class. These locos were displaced from passenger trains when diesel locomotives arrived. Later still even the freight traffic was taken over by diesels. All 18 were named after rivers in Western Australia. Originally numbered 138 this was the first of the Pr class built. Renumbered 1946 to WAGR 521. Was converted to oil fired in 1947, but converted back to coal in 1948

521 was named ASHBURTON. In service in 1938, travelled over 1,000,000 miles before being withdrawn in 1970. Now found at Bassendean railway museum. At the museum you can also see a X class diesel locos that replaced 521.