No.3 Flash

Ex-Qunaba Mill, Bundaberg

 

No.3 ‘Flash’ displayed within the exhibits hall at The Workshops, Ipswich on 22 October 2006.

Builder

Perry Engineering Co. Ltd,

Mile End, Adelaide

Builder’s Number & Year

6160.48.1 of 1948

Wheel Arrangement

0-6-2T

 

This handsome loco is one of 19 steam engines built for various Australian sugar mills by Adelaide company Perry Engineering Co. Ltd. Perry also built many larger locomotives for various Australian state government railways and civil engineering / construction projects. The Perry-built cane locos have fared well in preservation, with 16 surviving examples listed on this site.

This locomotive was constructed in 1948 for the Qunaba Mill, Bundaberg where it was known as No.3 ‘Flash’.

Following retirement, No.3 'Flash' was stored at the Queensland Museum, Brisbane until moved to the new ‘The Workshops’ railway museum at the former Ipswich Railway Workshops on 25 September 2001. It is now displayed within the exhibits hall.

References

a

Light Railway Research Society of Australia Inc. Web site
(retrieved 10 July 2018):

'Preserved Australian Sugar Cane Locomotives' list
by John Browning (www.lrrsa.org.au/LRR_SGRc.htm)

b

Wikipedia page for Perry Engineering Co Ltd,
retrieved 27 February 2018

c

'Light Railways - Australia's Magazine of Industrial & Narrow Gauge Railways',

Number 162, December 2001,

published by Light Railway Research Society of Australia Inc.

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