X1001

An extensive history of this locomotive by Ron Madden appeared in ARHS Bulletin April 2004. The locomotive had a chequered history passing numerous times betwen govenment and construction contractor or private railways. 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 thouh it was itself somewhat underpowered for many of the tasks that came its way.

20/09/1861	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
?	On hire to J & A Brown
April 1907	Returned to NSWGR
Nov 1907	On hire to Commonwealth Oil Corporation for Newnes construction.
Jan 1910	Returned to NSWGR, reboilered.
Feb 1910	Sold to R G 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Aug 1922	Withdrawn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Feb 1923	Withdrawn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
Jly 1929	Condemned
Feb 1930	Scrapped

Photos

Grunbachhas three photos of 1001 on pages 23,24. A good clear righthand side view showing the 394Xnumber, an official posed photo with lots of railwaymen, and a rather dark view of 1001 working a Sandgate cemetery funeral train. The first photo also appears in Byways of Steam 18.

Eardley2 has a dark posed photo of 1001 on the Sulphide Corporation branch.

Century+ has same photo as Grunbach

Shale Railways of NSW has a photo of 1001 as 394X on page 158.

Coaching Stock of the NSW Railways Vol1 has a photo of 1001 as 9N on a Sandgate Cemetery funeral train in the 1870 to 1880 period (page 47).

Ron Madden's bulletin article has three photographs. Page 149 has a side on view of 1001 (as 394X) outside a workshop building, this is the clearest published potograph of this locomotive. Page 157 has a photograph of a Sandgate Cemetry funeral train in 1868. Page 153 has a side on photograph of the locomotive (partially stripped) in storeage at Enfield (shows opposite side to page 149).

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