The WAGR D class was a single member class of

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operated by the

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(WAGR) from 1884 until 1903.

History

The D class locomotive was built in 1884 by

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. It entered service on 1 March 1884 as a jetty shunter on the

Fremantle Long Jetty Fremantle Long Jetty was constructed in 1873 to replace the smaller South Jetty which had become too small for the large amounts of vessels entering the colony in Western Australia. The jetty lies in Bathers Beach, Fremantle, Bather's Bay which ...

. When engine class designations were introduced in 1885, it was numbered D6. Upon the opening of Fremantle's inner harbour in 1897, the long jetty ceased to be used, and the locomotive became surplus to requirements. It was sold in September 1903 for use on the 2.5 mile Leonora tramway. Following the electrification of that tramway in 1908, it was sold to Bunning Brothers, reboilered, had its saddle tank removed and a tender built hauled timber hauling times trains at Lyalls Mill, Argyle, Muja and Tullis until withdrawn in 1951 and scrapped in 1956.

Namesakes

The D class designation was reused for the D class locomotives from 1912 and again in the 1970s when the D class diesel locomotives entered service.

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