This locomotive was built by John Fowler in Leeds in 1899 for use on the tramway linking the town of Mossman and Mossman Central Mill with Port Douglas in far-North Queensland.
It was used on cane haulage to the sugar mill and the tramway link to Port Douglas until its retirement in 1958.
The name the locomotive carried (Faugh-a-Ballagh) is the nickname of the Royal Irish Fusiliers. The regiment got its nickname, the Faughs, from its Irish war cry “Faugh A Ballagh” (Fág a’ Bealach, meaning Clear the Way) from the Napoleonic Wars.
By 2004 the locomotive was preserved at Port Douglas, together with an open wagon and bogie passenger carriage. It had been cosmetically restored in 1997 and provided with a shelter from the weather and a secure enclosure.
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