Silverton Tramway 2-6-0 No. Y 12
Port Adelaide, SAUS, Australia 		Location: National Railway Museum Port Adelaide
Status: Display
Posted: Aug 11, 2017 @ 16:08:39 by Robin R Beck
The Y class a design was first used on Tasmanian railways. This is one of 19 ordered by Silverton Tramway even though there were only 17 on the books at any one time. At least 2 were sold shortly after arriving. Some second hand Y class were bought from other operators as well. A noticeable item, when some had their boilers rebuilt raising pressure from 145 to 180 psi, lead weights were added to their running boards to improve adhesion. All three preserved Silverton Y class carry these lead slabs.

Y12 was withdrawn form service in July 1961. It ran nearly 691,000 miles in service and was the last Y class to operate on the tramway, even just outlasting by months the A class engines. In September 1964 it was back in steam to work picnic specials, then stored until transferred to Mile End Museum in October 1965. In 1988 moved with museum collection to Port Adelaide.

Posted: Aug 22, 2013 @ 13:08:00 by Steve Frost
Anyone who is interested in family matters will recognise this as a member of Beyer Peacock's family of locos with those characteristic sloping outside cylinders, backward sloping smokebox front plate and leading Bissell truck with outside bearings.

They all date back to Carl Pihl's work with Beyer Peacock which produced their classic 2-4-0 tank engine for Norwegian three foot six inch gauge lines. In the UK the Manx railway system used the design extensively and it was expanded to include various other wheel arrangements, like this mogul here, and it is a tender engine, not a tank loco. Examples of many variations were exported widely.

A search of the site for Beyer Peacock locos will produce all the survivors of this family of locomotives. It would be a huge family reunion if it ever happened!