at Kilmarnock in 1911 for the Blue Circle Southern Cement Company.
The company operated a short private railway to connect their cement plant at Portland with Ivanhoe Colliery and the New South Wales Government Railways (NSWGR) line to Mudgee. Although only two kilometres or so in length, the line to the cement plant featured a steep gradient and the locomotives were worked quite hard.
The line was one of the last commercial steam locomotive operations in Australia which were only ended when second hand diesel locomotives were employed in 1983. The cement plant closed a few years later.
The locomotive remained in use at the cement company until 1983 after which it was acquired for preservation and is now stored at Dorrigo for the proposed Dorrigo Steam Railway & Museum.
Andrew Barclay 1470 which was employed alongside this locomotive has also been preserved.
Andrew Barclay Works No 1419 0-4-0T Qunaba Mill, Australia Gauge 2ft 0in
This locomotive was built by Andrew Barclay at Kilmarnock in 1915 and worked at the Qunaba Mill at Mon Repos, near Bundaberg. It is a rare example of an Andrew Barclay locomotive being employed in the sugar industry.
Qunaba takes its name from the Qunaba sugar plantation and mill. Originally established as the Mon Repos plantation and mill, it was taken over in 1900 by the Queensland National Bank who renamed it Qunaba.
The sugar cane was transported to the mill using the company owned railway which extended over a very wide area of cane growing country. The raw sugar from the mill was refined at the company’s refinery at Bundaberg.
At some point the locomotive was acquired by a private owner and moved to a rural site near Echuca in Victoria.
As of 2005 the locomotive was in a dismantled state and the boiler had been declared to be beyond restoration. The owner indicated at that time that the locomotive would be fitted with a boiler from a Baldwin locomotive.
Preserved British Steam Locomotives 