This locomotive was built by John Fowler in Leeds in 1928 to work at the South Johnstone Mill.
The South Johnstone Mill was established following a recommendation from a 1911 Royal Commission which had been set up to inquiry into the desirability of having an additional sugar mill site. There was already a tramline branch between there and the Innisfail tramway, which led to the Mourilyan wharf. A government controlled South Johnstone mill crushed its first cane in 1916, producing 4729 tones of sugar.
South Johnstone cane farms were notable for labour unrest in the 1920s, partly caused by Weils disease carried by rats and the refusal by farmers to burn the cane to get rid of vermin.
The locomotive is preserved at the Timbertown Heritage Railway at Wauchope in New South Wales where it operates on the 2km railway.
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