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Although it had found early favour in Europe, especially on lightly engineered railways, the Mallet type had generally been superseded by the Garratt locomotive by the mid 1920s, but in the Dutch East Indies, now the Republic of Indonesia, several types and sizes remained in use into the 1980s. Moreover in 1962 the Indonesian State railways DKA ordered a series of 0-4-4-2's, basically an updated version of the earlier Dutch design, for the old Atjeh (now Aceh) tramway. Constructed by Nippon Sharyo in Japan, these are the only Mallets built in Asia. In contrast to the rest of the Indonesian railways it has a gauge of 750 mm (2'6"), as to 1067 mm (3"6") for the rest of the Archipelago. Smaller Mallets were used by plantations and other industries, all of the 0-4-4-0 type. These ran mostly on 600 mm (1' 11.5") and 700 mm (2' 3.5") gauge networks.
One Mallet ran in New Zealand, and is preserved at Glenbrook Vintage Railway, Auckland. No Mallets ran in Australia.
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