Tags: Locomotive.
The R class was an express passenger steam locomotive that ran on Australia’s Victorian Railways from 1951 to 1974. A long overdue replacement for the 1907-era A2 class 4-6-0 their development and construction was repeatedly delayed due to financial constraints caused by the Great Depression and later the manpower and materials shortages of World War II and the immediate postwar period.Orders eventually totalling 70 locomotives were placed with the North British Locomotive Company of Glasgow.
