Locomotives
Several tight-radius curves required careful consideration of the locomotives that were to run on them, and consequently mainly articulated designs were chosen. The 2-6-4-0T 'J Class' Hagans locomotive was the first articulated locomotive to run on the line, and was at the time the heaviest 2-foot (0.61 m) gauge locomotive in the Southern Hemisphere, weighing 42 tonnes. It was more powerful than its 3' 6" gauge counterparts. It proved successful on the line, and was soon joined by the 1909-vintage 'K Class' 0-4-0+0-4-0 Garratt locomotives, with which it worked until the line was closed to locomotives in 1929.
The Sharp-Stewart locomotives had been sold some years before the closure, and K-2 was also scrapped. However, K-1 and the Hagans loco were saved. K-1, the first of the Garratt locos, was presented back to its makers, Beyer-Peacock of Manchester, while the Hagans languished in the Zeehan locomotive shed until 1949, when it too was scrapped.
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