locomotive was built by Hudswell Clarke & Co in Leeds in 1950 and was one of a fleet of locomotives operated by Colonial Sugar Refining Ltd (CSR) at is mills in Queensland. This locomotive spent its entire working life based at the Victoria Mill at Ingham north of Townsville.
The locomotives at the Victoria Mil carried names of local towns and Australian cities which resulted in this locomotive being given the name Sydney. It worked there until steam ceased in 1976.
CSR acquired large amounts of land in the north of Queensland after being enabled to do so by the passing of act by the Queensland Government in 1881. CSR invested £500,000 in establishing sugar plantations with the two major ones created were the Victoria Plantation and the Homebush
The mill at Victoria has been modernised and expanded several times over the years. By the mid 1950s following major expansion of the mill and its growing area it had become one of the largest in Australia and Ingham district was anticipating its first million ton cane crop.
Interestingly Victoria Mill, an early adopter of chopped cane bins and diesel power, was also one of the last to retire its steam locomotives.
It is understood that the locomotive operated in preservation during the 1990s on tourist trains at Mossman Mill.
The locomotive is believed to have been privately owned and stored at Julatten in Queensland but in November 2018 the ownership changed and the locomotive is thought to be now stored at Kingswood in Sydney.
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