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The WAGR U class was a class of 4-6-2 tender engine steam locomotives used by the Western Australian Government Railways (WAGR) between 1946 and the late 1960s. ==History== In 1942, the North British Locomotive Company built 55 locomotives almost identical to the 220 class of the Sudan Railways. The new locomotives were intended to be available for use on various gauge railways operated by the Sudan, Nigeria, Gold Coast, Belgian Congo, French Ocean Congo and Rhodesian Railways, depending upon the course of the World War II battles in North Africa. Unlike the 220 class, which burned coal, the new locomotives were equipped as oil burners, although they had provision for rapid conversion to coal burning, if necessary. Of the 55 new locomotives, 35 were sent overseas in 1942 and 1943. The remaining 20 were stored unassembled at the Melbourne Military Railway, near Derby, England. In 1946, six of these went to the Nyasaland Railways for use on the Trans-Zambesi Railway, and the other 14 were sent to Western Australia, where they became the WAGR U class.
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