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The Z12 Class of NSW Railways

Built by Beyer Peacock, Manchester, and closely related to the Z13 class .

Image : dir=nsw/12class/ page=index 102224 bytes, 739x504 pixels Date : Oct 1988, catalogued 31 Jan 1997 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : colour print Description : 1210 is surrounded by scores of young admirers as she stands in the standard gauge dock at Spencer Street Station.

1210's Restoration

I remember Peter Reynell in the mid 70s looking wistfully at 1210 on her plinth outside Canberra Railway Station and saying that it would be nice if we could restore her for her centenary (1978). That was not to be, but in 1984 the ARHS ACT Divn did finally secure permission to restore 1201, and this sequence of photos documents the removal process. As the previous image shows, 1210 was in steam in time for Australia's bicentenary.

Image : dir=nsw/12class/ page=index 141093 bytes, pixels Date : Sep 1984, catalogued 28 Aug 1999 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Kodachrome, slide number 12935 Description : Not shown is the tender removal, but after that hard work, a few of the workers have a bit of a break while the tender is being removed to the rail yard.

Image : dir=nsw/12class/ page=index 181487 bytes, pixels Date : Sep 1984, catalogued 28 Aug 1999 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Kodachrome, slide number 12936 Description : Sans tender, 1210 poses on her plinth for the last time.

Image : dir=nsw/12class/ page=index 103165 bytes, pixels Date : Sep 1984, catalogued 28 Aug 1999 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Kodachrome, slide number 12939 Description : Kerry Mellor supervises operations.

Image : dir=nsw/12class/ page=index 69760 bytes, pixels Date : Sep 1984, catalogued 28 Aug 1999 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Kodachrome, slide number 12942 Description : Slowly, Slowly, 1210 is towed back onto the low loader.

Image : dir=nsw/12class/ page=index 138512 bytes, pixels Date : Sep 1984, catalogued 28 Aug 1999 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Kodachrome, slide number 12943 Description : The prunus blossom makes a nice backdrop for a ticklish operation.

Image : dir=nsw/12class/ page=index 149929 bytes, pixels Date : Sep 1984, catalogued 29 Aug 1999 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Kodachrome, slide number 12944 Description : The prunus blossom makes a nice backdrop for a ticklish operation.

Image : dir=nsw/12class/ page=index 119604 bytes, pixels Date : Sep 1984, catalogued 29 Aug 1999 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Kodachrome, slide number 12954 Description : Safely aboard the low loader, and 1210 does a brief tour of the Kingston streets around Canberra Station ...

Image : dir=nsw/12class/ page=index 111045 bytes, pixels Date : Sep 1984, catalogued 29 Aug 1999 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Kodachrome, slide number 12958 Description : ... to the Kingston railway yards ...

Image : dir=nsw/12class/ page=index 107240 bytes, pixels Date : Sep 1984, catalogued 29 Aug 1999 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Kodachrome, slide number 12960 Description : ... and the goods crane, where she is united with the Australian standard gauge rail network after a break of 22 years.

Image : dir=nsw/12class/ page=index 85658 bytes, 800x600 pixels Date : 1988, catalogued 26 Sep 2004 Photographer : Terry Bingham Medium : email digital image, image location 1210 at Queanbeyan Description : 1210 returning to Queanbeyan after running a trip to Farrer on the occasion of the bicentenary in 1988.

Image : dir=nsw/12class/ page=index 90320 bytes, 800x600 pixels Date : 1988, catalogued 26 Sep 2004 Photographer : Terry Bingham Medium : email digital image, image location 1210 Close up Description : 1210 returning to Queanbeyan after running a trip to Farrer on the occasion of the bicentenary in 1988.

Image : dir=nsw/12class/ page=index 39551 bytes, 800x600 pixels Date : 1988, catalogued 26 Sep 2004 Photographer : Terry Bingham Medium : email digital image, image location 1210 releasing steam at Queanbeyan Description : 1210 at Queanbeyan with cylinder cocks open, just about manages to obscure her young steam relative 5910.

Image : dir=nsw/12class/ page=index 79750 bytes, 800x600 pixels Date : 1960s, catalogued 1998 Photographer : David Dawe Medium : personal photo lent by David Dawe, scanned with permission Description : 1210 at Strathfield in the 1960s

Image : dir=nsw/12class/ page=index 78168 bytes, 744x497 pixels Date : 15 Oct 1988, catalogued 25 Feb 2001 Photographer : Terry Case Medium : email digital image, image location 1210+3016 Description : Terry writes: Here is a photo closer to my home (Benalla). The attachment is of 1210 and 3112 heading through Glenrowan for Melbourne on 15/10/88 as part of the Aus Steam celebrations.

Image : dir=nsw/12class/ page=index 63771 bytes, 800x600 pixels Date : c1979, catalogued 15 Jan 2005 Photographer : Brett Fitzpatrick Medium : email digital image, image location 1243 Description : 1243 blows down at Thirlmere circa 1979.

Image : dir=nsw/12class/ page=index 99896 bytes, 800x600 pixels Date : 1957 (?), catalogued 27 Sep 2005 Photographer : Phil Sullivan Medium : email digital image, image location Z1243-24 Description : Phil writes: Z1243 taken on the occasion of the NSWGR's "Last Steam Train to Gosford. I cannot remember the year, but I left Australia for the UK in 1960. My guess is that it must have been earlier than 1959.

Image : dir=nsw/12class/ page=index 84965 bytes, pixels Date : Nov 1974, catalogued 19 Oct 1998 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Ektachrome, slide number 4793 Description : I was always very taken with the long viaduct and bridge over the Murrumbidge at Gundagai, so when I got to travel by steam on the vintage train to Tumut, I made sure to get this picture. Alas, the line is now closed.

Image : dir=nsw/12class/../32class/ page=index 101372 bytes, 800x493 pixels Date : c1980, catalogued 15 Jan 2005 Photographer : Brett Fitzpatrick Medium : email digital image, image location 3214, 1243 + 3820, Sydney Terminal, September 1980 Description : During the 1980 celebrations of the 125th anniversay of the NSWR, 3214 prepared to haul a train out of Sydney Terminal as 1243 and 3820 sit ready on the adjacent platform. 3820 was not in steam, having been unserviceable since 1975.

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