This is one of the final two crane tank locomotive built by R & W Hawthorn , Leslie & Company in Newcastle upon Tyne for the . New South Wales Government Railway (NSWGR).
These locomotives were used for all types of lifting jobs at railway workshops and depots, for permanent way renewals and construction, and for erection and dismantling of overhead structures and signal bridges. They were also employed for handling scrap materials in reclamation depots and maintenance materials in permanent way stores, for which duty they were sometimes equipped with clamshell buckets and electro-magnets for handling heavy items such as fishplates.
The crane was capable of lifting loads of up to 7 tons and rotating 360 degrees.
The locomotives were classified as class X10. The X10 class included a number of different types of engines including small 0-4-0 and 2-4-0 tank locomotives. All types of duplicates, yard and depot locomotives, crane locomotives and accident cranes and special equipment were classified as the X10 class. Many were purchased from other government agencies and private lines. As such, this was an extremely diverse group of locomotives.
This locomotive was employed at Eveleigh workshops at Sydney from where it was withdrawn from service in the early 1980s.
After cosmetic restoration the locomotive was displayed on a plinth at the former Eveleigh Locomotive Works in Sydney(now the Advanced Technology Park) where it replaced classmate 1082.
There are three members of the six locomotives supplied between 1914 and 1923 which have been preserved.
The other two are.
- 1052 Works No 3035
- 1067 Works No 3564
- 1068 Works No 3565
The other locomotive supplied in 1950 and preserved is
- 1082 Works No 7542
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