The TasmanianGovernmentRailways (TGR) was the former operator of the mainline railways in Tasmania, Australia. Formed in 1872, the railway company was...
The TasmanianGovernmentRailways R class was a class of 4-6-2 steam locomotives operated by the TasmanianGovernmentRailways. In 1923, the Tasmanian Government...
The Y class is a class of diesel locomotives built by the TasmanianGovernmentRailways between 1961 and 1971. The Y class were designed by English Electric...
The X class is a class of diesel locomotives built by English Electric for the TasmanianGovernmentRailways between 1950 and 1952. They were the first...
The Z class are a class of diesel locomotives built by English Electric Rocklea for the TasmanianGovernmentRailways in 1973. They were a development...
Australian Railways T class was a class of 4-8-0 steam locomotives operated by the South Australian Railways. Several were sold to the TasmanianGovernment Railways;...
consists mostly of locomotives operated by the Emu Bay Railway, TasmanianGovernmentRailways, AN Tasrail and TasRail and the preceding private companies...
Y class, TasmanianGovernmentRailways C class and Western Australian GovernmentRailways G class, and also in Queensland and on the Emu Bay Railway and...
Australian Standard Garratts purchased from the Queensland Railways and TasmanianGovernmentRailways. In 1953, a North British Locomotive Company 0-8-0 diesel-hydraulic...
Y class (supplied parts local construction) TasmanianGovernmentRailways Z classTasmanianGovernmentRailways Za class Victorian RailwaysLclass (electric)...
and two locomotives were built in 1909, which became the K class. The TasmanianRailways stipulated two features that were not in Herbert Garratt's original...
engines built for export overseas. An example of this was the TasmanianGovernmentRailways V class which ran on 3 ft 6 in gauge, necessitating an outside frame...
of the class entered service in 1904. The locomotives were tank engines designed by the Railways Department's Chief Mechanical Engineer A. L. Beattie...
Silverton Tramway Y class, South Australian Railways Y class and TasmanianGovernmentRailways C class, and also on the Chillagoe Railway & Mining Co in Queensland...
shunting duties with diesel power. The class was physically similar to the TasmanianGovernmentRailways X class, which was also of English Electric design...
former TasmanianGovernmentRailways V class V12, while DH5 and DH59 are ex Queensland Railways DH class. All were regauged and rebuilt for the railway. Diesel...
its first contract for steam locomotives for the New South Wales GovernmentRailways. By 1923 it had 2,200 employees. After contracting during the depression...
to Darwin railways. In 1975, all assets were acquired by the Australian National Railways Commission, branded as Australian National Railways and subsequently...
the Emu Bay Railway and six to the TasmanianGovernmentRailways, with the remainder scrapped in 1954/55. The TasmanianGovernmentRailways purchased 14...
generally assumed in the 1850s that railways would be built by the private sector. Private companies built railways in the then colonies of Victoria, opened...
funding, ownership and operation of the Tasmanianrailway network; with the TasmanianGovernment acquiring the railway infrastructure previously leased to...
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