Andrew Barclay   Works No 1470      5        0-6-0T     Blue Circle Southern Cement, Portland, Australia     Gauge 4ft 8½in

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.

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