Loco 1022

Locomotive 1022

About the exhibit

Under restoration
CLASS V(1217) (pre 1924), X10 (1924 classification)
TYPE — 0-4-0 SMALL STEAM SADDLE TANK ENGINE — 2 IN CLASS

An engine identical to 1022 and 1023 was purchased by Emu Gravel Company a year earlier and became their No1. This engine came into the possession of Parramatta Park Steam Tramway and 1022 was given to NSW Rail Transport Museum. However as 1022 would only have been a static exhibit at the RTM and it was in operational condition it was agreed that the two societies exchange engines, the changeover occuring on 20th October 1970. 1022 saw active service in Parramatta Park until damaged by fire on 7 June 1993.

1022 is currently in pieces undergoing restoration at Valley Heights.

Custodian

Steam Tram and Railway Preservation (Co-op) Society trading as Valley Heights Steam Tramway

History

Built in 1916 by Vulcan Iron Works, Wilkes Barre, U.S.A., for the Public Works Department, these two locomotives, like the G(1204)-class came into the possession of the New South Wales Railways in the same year. Classed as V(1217) and given road numbers 1217 and 1218, they were re-numbered 1022 and 1023 in the 1924 classification.

They were used in the construction of the Metropolitan goods lines but most of their work has been in and around Enfield locomotive depot, moving tenders and "dead" engines. During World War II. they were hired, in 1943 for the duration, by the U.S.A. Army. along with a locally-built "American" suburban car for work at the United States Quartermasters Corps' store area near Sandown.

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