Port Pirie was built by Andrew Barclay, Sons & Co. at Kilmarnock, Scotland, as their builder's number 1555 of 1920 ^(a) for use at the Broken Hill Associated Smelters (BHAS) at Port Pirie, South Australia.

Sister locomotives Peronne, Pozieres, Polygon and Passchendaele were built in 1918 and named after significant World War 1 battles on the Western Front in which the Australian Infantry Force fought, whereas Port Pirie was built in 1920 and was named after the city in which it worked. ^(b)

Port Pirie is now plinthed in a small courtyard within the Port Pirie Old Station Museum, a short distance from the smelters where it once worked.

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