AD60 Class Steam Locomotive 6040, built 1956, on static display at NSW Rail Museum in Thirlmere - see below

The VERY LAST steam locomotive to enter service in NSW.

Builder: Beyer Peacock & Co, Manchester
Builder’s Number & Year: 7542 of 1956
Wheel Arrangement: 4-8-4 + 4-8-4
No. in class: 42
Entered Service: 2 January 1957
Date Condemned: 17 November 1967

With the New South Wales Government Railways needing additional motive power in the post-war period, Beyer Peacock & Co supplied 42 freight locomotives of the patented ‘Beyer-Garratt’ articulated type. The AD60 class Beyer-Garratts excelled in NSWGR service, following elimination of a number of teething troubles and attention to union concerns. 6040 was the last of the class assembled, in the process becoming the last steam locomotive to enter NSWGR service when launched to traffic on 2 January 1957. 6040 was later rebuilt by the NSWGR as a 'heavy-type' Garratt (the ‘++’ modifications included bored-out cylinders) but it was not modified for dual control (‘DC’).
Info source, and more, here:
www.australiansteam.com/6040.htm

Locomotive 6040 has heritage significance, as an impressive example of a class of heavy goods locomotives built in England, to a ‘Garratt’ patent design for the NSWGR and as the last steam locomotive to enter service in NSW in 1957. The Beyer-Garratt locomotives had the highest tractive effort of any class of steam locomotive in Australia, and this item was an important element in the movement of goods via the railways in NSW. The locomotive demonstrates the willingness of the NSWGR to adopt a radical yet well developed type of locomotive for local service, yet demonstrates the conservatism of the railway administration in spite of the trend towards dieselisation. The locomotive demonstrates an unconventional yet very successful design of steam locomotive with massively bulky form, the result of strictly functional parameters, giving the locomotive a unique appearance among all other NSW rolling stock. Technically significant, this class represented the ultimate development of the steam engine in NSW. In output, the class was unmatched by any other steam locomotive and many diesels, with the capability of working on branch lines. One of 42 Beyer-Garratt locomotives to enter service, locomotive 6040 is considered rare as one of only four to survive.
Info source, and more, here:
www.environment.nsw.gov.au/heritageapp/ViewHeritageItemDe...

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Taken on: August 5, 2018

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