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RD14017. Southern Railway Q Class 0-6-0 30541 arriving at Kingscote on the Bluebell Railway in East Sussex.
Sunday, 30th October, 2016. Copyright © Ron Fisher.
As GM45 is about to depart from West Kalgoorlie with an SCT movement to Parkeston, Q308 pulls up alongside waiting to head back to Kalgoorlie loco on 7-3-1999
The GT46C is a model of diesel electric locomotive designed and built by Clyde Engineering using Electro-Motive Diesel components. Entering service from 1997 for a number of Australian rail freight operators, those built for Westrail are known as the Q class.
Specifications
Configuration:
Gauge1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Length22 m (72 ft 2 in)
Loco weight134 t (132 long tons; 148 short tons)
Fuel typeDiesel
Prime moverElectro-Motive Diesel 16-710G3B-ES
GeneratorElectro-Motive Diesel AR11 PBEH
Traction motorsElectro-Motive Diesel D87BTRL
Cylinders16
[hide]Performance figures
Maximum speed115 km/h (71 mph)
Power output3,100 kW (4,200 hp)
SR Maunsell Q-class No.30541 under repair at Sheffiled Park. Built in 1939 at Eastleigh this is the only example of this class remaining.
The Q Class, is a type of 0-6-0 steam locomotive designed by Richard Maunsell of the Southern Railway and constructed immediately prior to the Second World War, for use on medium-distance freight trains throughout network. Twenty locomotives were built by Maunsell's successor, Oliver Bulleid, in 1938. The design was relatively old-fashioned and the class was soon afterwards eclipsed by Bulleid's own more powerful Q1 class. Nevertheless the locomotives performed adequately and reliably on the tasks for which they were designed until their withdrawal in 1965.
Ex-SR Maunsell 'Q Class' 0-6-0 30541 at Sheffield Park on a cold misty morning in October 2018, during the Bluebell Railway 'Giants of Steam' event.
The loco had completed its most recent overhaul in 2015, and is in late-BR condition, with a BR Class 4 chimney replacing the Bulleid version.
Veteran Bluebell Railway Wainwright P Class ''Bluebell'' is on the right..
Still shot from UHD video
SR Maunsell Q-class No.30541, Seen at Horsted Keynes on the Bluebell Railway.Here giving rides in a brake van.
Q318 the second to last Q class built for Westrail by Clyde in Forrestfield stands in the Kalgoorlie loco stabled on 6-3-1999.
Q318 entered service in mid 1998
After arriving at Southern Cross on a loaded ballast train from West Kalgoorlie, Q308 runs around the consist before returning the train B end leading towards West Kalgoorlie once again unloading enroute on 5-3-1999
18th March 2019, The Q class substituted for the failed Beattie Well Tank on a Bluebell charter. With four Bulleid coaches and some good light it did look good. At lunchtime the cold Adams Radial was photographed. More and all in hi-res at davebowles.smugmug.com/Recent-events-and-uploads/18th-Mar...
Taken on November 3rd 1963
Ex-Southern Railway Maunsell Q Class 0-6-0s 30531 and 30543 at Lavant station in November 1963, during the Locomotive Club of Great Britain
‘The Hayling Farewell Rail Tour’.. For some reason, the train has been deliberately prevented from stopping next to the platform..
All of the Q Class were fitted with Lemaitre blastpipes and wider chimneys by Bulleid in the 1940s, to improve steaming, and 30531 still has one of these. Some of the class were later fitted with BR Standard Class 4 chimneys in the 1950s, like 30543..
30531 entered service in 1938, and was withdrawn in July 1964, and scrapped in December. 30543 entered service in 1939, and was withdrawn in December 1964, and scrapped in May 1965. One example has been preserved, at the Bluebell Railway.
Lavant station had closed to passengers back in 1935, and closed completely in 1970. The line itself finally closed completely in 1991, and the trackbed is now (2024) part of the ‘Centurion Way’ cycle path.. The station building (out of shot, to the left) has survived, and is now a private residence..
Restored from an under-exposed green/yellow-colour-shifted original..
Original slide - property of Robert Gadsdon
L-R:
LMS Fowler 3F 'Jinty' 47406 backs onto 2C26, the 13:30 to Rothley; SR Maunsells 30541 & 777 "Sir Lamiel" wait to leave with 2A27, the 13:45 to Leicester North;
BR Standard 9F 92214 sits out of the way in the TPO sidings.
Bluebell's Q class 30541, still dressed as 30543 poses in Platform 1 at Loughborough Station on the Great Central Railway.
RD14117. BR Standard Class 5 4-6-0 73082 CAMELOT and Southern Railway Maunsell Q Class 0-6-0 30541 make a rousing departure from Horsted Keynes on the Bluebell Railway in East Sussex.
Sunday, 30th October, 2016. Copyright © Ron Fisher.
The weather was far less than ideal but still a great day to see this loco on a box van train during its visit from the Bluebell Railway.
Date taken: 21/09/2019
Location taken: Kidderminster Station
Rolling stock in photo: SR Q Class 30541 and SR West Country Class 34027 Taw Valley
Q4019 & LQ3121 WITH AN AURIZON MIXED GOODS TO LEONORA ARE SEEN HERE PASSING THROUGH BROAD ARROW WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Q Class 30541 had had the guard's signal to depart from Horsted Keynes with the 11am Sheffield Park to East Grinstead when it was pulled up short because a door had not been closed properly. Here they are again waiting authority to proceed. July 8th 2017
Taken with a Nikon F800S, 50mm Nikon lens, using Fujipan 400CN monochrome film
Taken from up the salt mounds at Koolynobbing , Q308 has stopped in the loop to allow the Kalgoorlie bound Prospector to pass by while working a ballast train from Southern Cross on 5-3-1999
SR Maunsell Q-class No.30541 under repair at Sheffiled Park. Built in 1939 at Eastleigh this is the only example of this class remaining.
The Q Class, is a type of 0-6-0 steam locomotive designed by Richard Maunsell of the Southern Railway and constructed immediately prior to the Second World War, for use on medium-distance freight trains throughout network. Twenty locomotives were built by Maunsell's successor, Oliver Bulleid, in 1938. The design was relatively old-fashioned and the class was soon afterwards eclipsed by Bulleid's own more powerful Q1 class. Nevertheless the locomotives performed adequately and reliably on the tasks for which they were designed until their withdrawal in 1965.
Scan of a slide taken 01/07/90: Another view of the Q Class. Although seven years separates this upload from the print I uploaded recently, coincidentally the loco is in the spot!
The weather was far less than ideal but still a great day to see this loco on a box van train during its visit from the Bluebell Railway.
The third and final shot from 1973 shows two ex-Southern Railway locomotives in the scrapyard at Barry. In the middle foreground is an unidentified Merchant Navy Pacific looking in a very sad state, but behind it is 30541 looking as though its removal from the yard may not be too far ahead. 30541 is a 1939-built 'Q' Class 0-6-0, now thankfully, saved and working at the fabulous Bluebell Railway
An image captured at the Bluebell Railway Giants of Steam gala 2015. The original RAW file was fine tuned in Adobe Photoshop then split-toned using an Adobe Lightroom preset filter.