X1001

1001
Locomotive 1001 (former 394X)
Type and origin Power type Steam Builder Manning Wardle Serial number 32 Model Old Class I Total produced 1
Specifications Configuration: ​  • Whyte 0-6-0ST Gauge 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) Driver dia. 3 ft 0 in (0.914 m) Loco weight 16.75 long tons (17.02 t; 18.76 short tons) Boiler pressure 120 lbf/in2 (0.83 MPa) Cylinder size 12 in × 17 in (304.8 mm × 431.8 mm) originally 11 in × 17 in (279.4 mm × 431.8 mm)
Career Class X10 Class Numbers Pioneer, 9N, 394, 394X, 394XX, Public Works 15, 1001 First run June 1864 Withdrawn January 1923 Scrapped 1930

Locomotive 'Pioneer' 1001 (former 394X) was two-cylinder, simple, non-condensing, coal-fired, 0-6-0 Saddle Tank locomotive for the New South Wales Government Railways (NSWGR) built in 1861 by Manning Wardle.

Service

Locomotive 1001 was originally on railway construction work under the name "Pioneer" by its owners, Petro, Brassey and Betts and was sold to the NSWGR in June 1864 and given the number 9N. In 1889 it was renumbered 394 and hired out to various private lines and later sold in 1909. In 1917 it found its way back into railway fold with the transfer of railway construction from the Public Works Department and continued in this work till 1925 when it was laid aside and eventually scrapped in 1929 after a life of 68 years.

It is a significant locomotive in the history of the New South Wales railways in that it demonstrated the usefulness of small 6 coupled tank engines in a variety of roles, even though it was itself somewhat underpowered for many of the tasks that came its way.

History

Date	Notes
Sep 1861	Completed by Manning Wardle
June 1862	Employed on construction work Cambeltown to Picton
1864	Operating as passenger engine on Great Northern Railway numbered 9N
1879	Under overhaul including new cylinders
1881	Reboilered, in use as works shunter at Honeysuckle.
1881	Used for coal haulage on Newcastle Coal Mining Company's Burwood line
1889	Renumbered 394
1891	Renumbered 394X
1893	Hired to Excelsior Land Investment and Building Company for Toronto tramway service
1899	Returned to NSWGR
Unknown	On hire to J & A Brown
April 1907	Returned to NSWGR
Jan 1910	Returned to NSWGR, reboilered.
Feb 1910	Sold to RG Watkins & Co (machinery dealer)
May 1913	Purchased by Public Works Department for railway construction
May 1917	Returned to NSWGR
May 1918	Stored pending overhaul
Sep 1919	Released from overhaul at Eveleigh
Jan to Jun 1920	Construction work, Stanwell Park deviation
Oct 1920	Construction work Lismore
Aug 1922	Withdrawn
Jan 1923	Brief return to service
Feb 1923	Withdrawn
1924	Renumbered 1001
Feb 1925	Placed in storage at Enfield
July 1929	Condemned
Feb 1930	Scrapped

External links

Media related to New South Wales X10 class locomotives at Wikimedia Commons