BHP1 Whyalla 4-6-0 No. 4
Port Adelaide, SAUS, Australia 		Location: National Railway Museum Port Adelaide
Status: Display
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Posted: Aug 13, 2017 @ 13:08:05 by Robin R Beck
One of class two engines supplied to work the tramway from Iron Knob to Whyalla. When larger locos arrived, relegated to lighter duties, even being used as a steam supply for pile driving. Withdrawn 1969 and moved to Mile End museum. Later moved to the new railway museum at Port Adelaide.

Iron Knob is a huge deposit of high grade iron ore. Was impossible to move large quantities of ore until the Iron Knob to Whyalla tramway was built in 1901 to transport ore from the mine. In 1903 wharves were built at Whyalla. Ore was shipped direct from port, as an export. The ore was 60% pure and allowed Australia to build its own Steelworks so ore then shipped to Newcastle and Port Kembla, where huge deposits of coal were located. Finally a steelworks was also built in Whyalla. The mine continued until 1998, with other nearby large mines still producing similar ore. The 42 inch railway still operates supplying ore to the steelworks. Today large ore carriers anchor off the port and are filled using shallower draught feeder vessels.

Posted: Mar 3, 2007 @ 16:03:26 by Robert Alexander
This locomotive is currently at the National Railway Museum,Port Dock,South Australia. It was one of two (of this class)that worked the iron ore trains between Iron Knob and Whyalla,S.A. Given No.4. No.5 B/No.41243/1914 was scrapped in 1956, while No.4 survived being made into a mobile steam plant for pile driving.She was condemned in June 1969 and about to be placed under the scrapper's torch when saved by the museum.Her tender (underframe only)which initially was thought to have been scrapped, was located later at Whyalla and was transported to Adelaide for restoration. Specifications: Class 10-26D324. D.Wh. 44", Cyls. 16x22" Coal cap. 2 tons, Water 3,500 galls. B.Pres.150 psi. T.E.16,300 lbs. I don't have weights or Heating Surface!
Posted: Nov 3, 2006 @ 21:11:30 by Rod Hawkes
Adelaide South Australia