Manning Wardle & Company     Works No 1802   Possum        0-4-0ST      C & G Hoskin, Australia    Gauge 4ft 8½in

Weight	42t
Driving Wheels	3ft 8ins
Boiler Pressure	180psi
Cylinders	Outside – 16in x 24in
Tractive Effort	20,100lbf

This locomotive was built by Manning Wardle & Company at Hunslet near Leeds in 1912 and arrived in Australia in 1919 to work for C & G Hoskin.

It was purchased new by C & G Hoskins for their Ironworks at Lithgow. George and Cecil Hoskins had taken over the steel works at Rhodes in Sydney in 1908 and they persuaded the Australian Government to pay a bounty for Australian produced steel. The business was moved from Rhodes to Lithgow but the smelters were closed in 1927.

In 1928 the Australian Iron & Steel (AI&S) was established to take over the business of  Hoskins Iron & Steel and utilised new blast furnaces at Port Kemble to replace those at Lithgow.

The locomotive moved to work at Port Kemble in 1928.

It was retired from service at Port Kemble in 1967. The locomotive was donated to Lithgow District Historical Society in 1969.

At some time later the locomotive was then placed on a plinth in the gardens of the Eskbank House Museum at Lithgow, near to the site of the Hoskins Ironworks.

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