Zig Zag Drewry
The 3’6” gauge Zig Zag Railway was originally part of the main line west of Sydney, requiring a 1 in 42 gradient with two reversing points to climb up into the Blue Mountains. This was bypassed in 1910 by a direct line through 10 tunnels, but the original route was restored in the 1970s as a tourist attraction.
Works trains were operated by four former underground mines locos built by Malcolm Moore in Melbourne in conjunction with Drewry in UK and supplied to Australian Iron & Steel's Illawarra district coal mines in NSW. These powerful 0-6-0DM locos used the same Gardner 8L3 engine as BR’s Drewry class 04, but derated to 184hp, and weigh some 26 tons. Here is no 19, donated by BHP in 1991, but all of these locos have since been disposed of.
Zig Zag Drewry
The 3’6” gauge Zig Zag Railway was originally part of the main line west of Sydney, requiring a 1 in 42 gradient with two reversing points to climb up into the Blue Mountains. This was bypassed in 1910 by a direct line through 10 tunnels, but the original route was restored in the 1970s as a tourist attraction.
Works trains were operated by four former underground mines locos built by Malcolm Moore in Melbourne in conjunction with Drewry in UK and supplied to Australian Iron & Steel's Illawarra district coal mines in NSW. These powerful 0-6-0DM locos used the same Gardner 8L3 engine as BR’s Drewry class 04, but derated to 184hp, and weigh some 26 tons. Here is no 19, donated by BHP in 1991, but all of these locos have since been disposed of.