Random Bollocks From A Semi-Retired Foamer!

NSW 48 Class

Current status 'now available' at the

'Australian Locomotive Rosters' Website.

165 Locos in 184 Photos 

All major (and some less so) liveries covered.

Builder: A. E. Goodwin

Gauge: Standard

Power: 780 kW / 1050 HP

Axles: Co-Co 

Length: 14.76 m

Mass: 75 t

4803 at Junee Roundhouse in the late 80s.
Photo: Brad Peadon

4843 8120 8175 Murrabit station. - Photo: Brad Peadon

48136 4898 4606 Port Botany (Patricks siding)
Photo: Brad Peadon

The 48s may be getting old, but they still cause much excitement amongst those impressionable young railfans.
Zane Maber

48136 4887 on last Patrick Portlink service from the, now closed, Sandown line.

All track has now been removed from here at Camelia.
Photo: Brad Peadon

4877 4705 up coal at Kahibah (Belmont branch)
Photo: Brad Peadon

PL3 PL7 48134 48137 Empty Coal at Abermain (South Maitland Railway)
Photo: Brad Peadon

4820 parts sitting outside Junee Roundhouse.
Photo: Brad Peadon

Further Reading

Semi Retired Foamer Media (For All Updates)
48 Class Today (ALR)
'DL531 Database' Group

'Australian Locomotive Rosters' Website

NSW Railways - Past and Present

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