Locomotive Y2

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Collection ID 12
Collection Status Operational
Storage Location New Norfolk Yard


The Y class was based on the then standard EE export design, seen in Australia as the Midland Railway (Western Australia) F class and South Australian 800 class. Eight Y class locomotives were built in batches by the Launceston railway workshops between 1961 and 1972, using parts supplied by English Electric. The new locomotives could operate in multiple with the earlier X class, although different performance characteristics meant that this was not optimal, although the XA class modifications did go some way to improving this. At completion, Y4 was named Rowallan and Y5 Sir Charles Gairdner after the previous and current Tasmanian Governors respectively.

Y2 Withdrawn by AN TasRail in 1991 and stored. Acquired by DVR in 1994.

Drawings

Appendix 2.jpg photograph from Dennis Hewitt (no.26)


It is not known which publication this was artwork for..

Photographs

Y Loco Under Construction.jpg
Y 1.jpg
210529 1999 Dennis DVR booklet 3 Y2 post 1995 photo Dennis Hewitt.jpg

Brakes

Other

Wikipedia Page for Y Class Locomotives in Tasmania:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasmanian_Government_Railways_Y_class