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Replica Steam Tram at the Yarloop Steam Workshops |
This photo is kindly provided by Malcolm Cluett and shows the replica steam tram awaiting its next steaming day inside the shed at Yarloop on 7 September 2008.
This interesting locomotive is an outline replica of a Sydney steam tram, built to 3' 6" gauge rather than the 4' 8.5" gauge of Sydney's original Baldwin steam trams. Unlike the original Sydney steam trams, I understand this replica has a geared drive and uses a modified "stationary" boiler (with firebox and smokebox at the same end - possibly a water-tube boiler) rather than the normal "locomotive type" boiler with a deep firebox and parallel tube run to a front smokebox. (b)
This replica was constructed over several years and trialed the Yarloop Steam Workshops in March 2006. It is now based at that location, being steamed monthly to provide visitor rides. (a)
Here is a second photo provided by Malcolm Cluett and dated 7 September 2008, showing details of the boiler.
References
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'Light Railways - Australia's Magazine of Industrial & Narrow Gauge Railways', Number 190, August 2006. Published by Light Railway Research Society of Australia Inc. |
| b | Personal comment or observation. |
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