Australia Beyer, Peacock & Company provided large numbers of standard design narrow gauge Mogul locomotives to several Australian Railways. Users of the Mogul type include the
South Australian Railways with its
Y class, the
Tasmanian Government Railways with its
C class, the
Western Australian Government Railways with its
G class (in a configuration as well) and numerous private users. The SAR also purchased 8 examples of the type built by Baldwin which became the
X class. The
New South Wales Government Railways had a number of mogul types starting from the 1880s, forming the
Z21,
Z22,
Z24,
Z25 and
Z27 classes.
Belgian Congo Twenty locomotives were built by
Les Ateliers de Tubize locomotive works in Belgium for the
CF du Congo Superieur aux Grands Lacs Africains (CFL) between 1913 and 1924. The first eight, numbered 27 to 34, were built in 1913, followed by six more in 1921, numbered 35 to 40. Six more of a slightly larger version followed in 1924, numbered 41 to 46. They had cylinders and diameter driving wheels, with the smaller versions having a working order mass of and the larger versions . Most of the CFL was regauged to gauge in 1955, as were all of the serving Moguls. Most of them still survived in 1973.
Canada A large number of 2-6-0 locomotives were used in Canada, where they were considered more usable in restricted spaces, being shorter than the more common Ten-Wheelers.
Canadian National (CN) had several. One of them, the CN No. 89, an E-10-a class locomotive built by
Canadian Locomotive Company in 1910, has been owned and operated since 1973 by the
Strasburg Rail Road in
Pennsylvania in the US, in conjunction with the
Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania. Another one, No. 81, has since its retirement been on public display outdoors in " Palmerston Lions Heritage Park " just south of Main Street in Palmerston, Ontario, Canada. A third one, No. 91, is preserved at the
Middletown and Hummelstown Railroad, were it is out of service and undergoing an FRA inspection. A fourth one, No. 96, is preserved and on display at the
Age of Steam Roundhouse in
Sugarcreek, Ohio. A well-preserved version, the
White Pass and Yukon Route No. 51, can be found at the MacBride Museum of Yukon History in
Whitehorse, Yukon.
Finland , at the
Finnish Railway Museum Finland's 2-6-0 locomotives were the Classes Sk1, Sk2, Sk3, Sk4, Sk5 and Sk6.
Finnish Steam Locomotive Class Sk1s were built from 1885 by
Swiss Locomotive & Machine Works. They carried numbers 117 to 131, 134 to 149, 152 to 172 and 183 to 190. These locomotives were nicknamed
Little Brown. Class Sk2 locomotives were numbered 196 to 213, 314 to 321 and 360 to 372. They were built by
Tampella. No. 315 is preserved at
Tampere in
Tampella.
Finnish Steam Locomotive Class Sk3s were built from 1903 by
Tammerfors Linne & Jern Manufakt. A.B. They were numbered 173 to 177, 191 to 195, 214 to 221, 334 to 359, 373 to 406 and 427 to 436. These locomotives were nicknamed
Grandmothers.
Indonesia The State Railway Company of the Dutch East Indies (
Staatsspoorwegen, SS) in
Indonesia operated 83 units of
tank locomotives of the C12 series, built by
Sächsische Maschinenfabrik of
Chemnitz,
Germany in 1896. They were wood-burning locomotives which consumed two cubic metres of wood and of water for 4½ hours of steam production. Of these locomotives, 43 survived the invasion by
Japan during the Second World War and were still being operated following independence from the
Netherlands. They were based in
Cepu in Indonesia and were used on the
Cepu-
Blora-
Purwodadi-
Semarang-
Bojonegoro-Jatirogo route, now closed. By the early 1980s, the survivors of the class were in poor condition. One example, C1218 no. 457, was revived in 2002 after twenty-five years, in
Ambarawa motive power depot. By mid-2006 it was operational, and since 2009 it was moved to Surakarta, Central Java to haul a chartered steam train across the main street of the heart of Surakarta, named
Jaladara.
Ireland operation. The white roundel indicates that it burns oil. Several locomotive classes found usage on Ireland's railways, mainly with freight trains. The first of these would be the
Great Southern and Western Railway Class 355, which were originally built by the
North British Locomotive Company as an
0-6-0 type in 1903, but later rebuilt into 2-6-0s after problems occurred; they were soon supplemented with the similar
Class 368. Some of these locomotives were converted to
oil firing and one even for peat-burning. Later classes of 2-6-0 include the
Dublin and South Eastern Railway nos. 15 and 16 (with no. 15 being preserved), and the
Great Southern Railways Classes 372 and 393, the latter of which were based on the British
SECR N Class.
Italy The
Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane came to operate more than 500 locomotives of the
Class 625 for mixed traffic and the
Class 640 for light passenger trains. These locomotives, nicknamed
Little Ladies (
Signorine), were very successful and several were preserved after the end of regular steam services, with some still operational for heritage trains.
New Zealand The Class J of the
New Zealand Railways Department (NZR) was its pioneering tender freight locomotive, introduced in 1877 for use in the re-gauged Canterbury region of the South Island. Built by the
Avonside Engine Company and other locomotive works in England, they were shipped to New Zealand in kit form. They eventually served all over New Zealand's fledgling rail network on both islands. In time, they were replaced on mainline running as larger power arrived. Many survived into the 1920s as yard shunters and some were converted to tank locomotives.
South Africa Cape gauge In 1876 and 1877, the Cape Government Railways (CGR) placed eighteen Mogul locomotives in freight service on the Cape Western system, built by
Beyer, Peacock & Company and the
Avonside Engine Company. They were designated
1st Class when a classification system was adopted. By 1912, three of them survived to be considered obsolete by the
South African Railways (SAR), designated Class 01 and renumbered by having the numeral 0 prefixed to their existing numbers. All were withdrawn from service by 1916. , T rebuilt to ST Also in 1876, the CGR placed a pair of
Stephenson's Patent back-to-back Mogul type side-tank locomotives in service on the Cape Midland system, built by
Kitson & Company. They were later separated and rebuilt to saddle-tank locomotives for use as shunting engines. When a classification system was introduced, they were designated 1st Class. In 1876 and 1877, the CGR placed eight
Mogul tender locomotives in service on the Cape Midland system, also built by Kitson & Company. They were all eventually rebuilt to saddle-tank locomotives for use as shunting engines. When a classification system was adopted, they were also designated
1st Class. In 1879 and 1880, the CGR placed ten Moguls, built by Beyer, Peacock and Company, in freight service on the Cape Western system. While similar to the locomotives of 1876, their cylinders were mounted at a downward inclination towards the driving wheelset. They were also designated
1st Class when a classification system was adopted on the CGR. In 1891, the CGR placed two Baldwin-built 2-6-0 Mogul locomotives in freight service, the first American locomotives to enter service in South Africa. They were originally designated 5th Class, but the classification was later changed to
1st Class. One of them still survived in 1912 and was also designated Class 01 by the SAR. It was withdrawn from service in 1920. Their front bogie was a
Krauss-Helmholtz bogie and these were the first steam locomotives in Thailand to be fitted with
Walschaerts valve gear. However, these engines were fired on wood, and so, their steaming qualities were hampered since they were designed as coal burners rather than wood burners. • The second class of 2-6-0s in Thailand were also built by Krauss in batches of 2 and 1 in 1901 and 1912 respectively, for the metre gauge lines to the south of the country. These resembled the standard gauge 2-6-0s Krauss supplied earlier to the standard gauge network of Thailand, also being fitted with the Krauss-Helmholtz bogie. Another two were also built by Krauss but the
Great War blocked the delivery of these locomotives, later finding work with the
Imperial German Army and postwar, on a private railway. Later, these locomotives would be given a class designation, as their class C. • The third class of 2-6-0s in Thailand were built by
Hanomag (Hanover Locomotive Works) in batches of 1, 3, 7, and 2 in 1906, 1907, 1908, and 1910, respectively. The first of these locomotives was commissioned by the RSR as a response to the steaming issues that hampered the standard gauge Krauss 2-6-0s, resulting in a design based on the
Prussian G 5 class locomotives, The standard gauge Hanomag locomotives, on the other hand, received gauge conversions upon metre gauge standardisation from 1924-28 when
Makkasan works received the necessary equipment to conduct rolling stock gauge conversion. These locomotives would run until the 1950s. The C56s brought to Thailand would later be inherited by the State Railway of Thailand, and several of these would be preserved. Two Thai C56 locomotives have been repatriated to Japan: they are nos.
C56 31—still with its Thai ABC coupler intact, and C56 44, respectively nos. 725 and 735 of the Thai railways. ; behind it is C56 17 preserved as SRT 715, February 2018 , March 2023 Nos. 713 and 715 have been retained in working order for the annual
son et lumière show at the
River Kwai bridge.
United Kingdom In the United Kingdom, where locomotives are generally smaller than in the US, the was found to be a good wheel arrangement for
mixed-traffic locomotives. Circa 1870, one 2-6-0T engine was built for the
Garstang and Knot-End Railway. The first unsuccessful
examples were fifteen locomotives built to a design of
William Adams for the
Great Eastern Railway in 1878–79. -built
MR no. 2516 The
Midland and South Western Junction Railway acquired two examples built to an Australian design by
Beyer, Peacock and Company in 1895 and 1897. A long strike by workers throughout the British engineering industry in 1898/1899 led to a backlog of locomotive orders. This led leading British companies to place orders with American builders for standard light general-purpose locomotives adapted to British requirements. In 1899, the
Midland Railway (MR), the
Great Northern Railway (GNR) and the
Great Central Railway (GCR) all purchased examples from the
Baldwin Locomotive Works in the US. In the United States, the 2-6-0 was already the common design for this sort of engine, and these imports were to be very influential in introducing the wheel arrangement to the United Kingdom. At the time of the
Grouping in 1923, 2-6-0 locomotives were already operated by the
Great Western Railway (
2600 and
4300 classes of 1900 and 1911 respectively), the
Caledonian Railway (34 class, 1912), the
London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (
K class, 1913), the
Glasgow and South Western Railway (
403 class, 1915), the GNR (
H2, H3 and
H4 classes, 1920), and the
South Eastern and Chatham Railway (
N class, 1922). Several of these designs continued to be built by the
Big Four after 1923, and several new and successful designs were introduced so that the 2-6-0 became the principal type for medium-loaded mixed-traffic duties. Notable new designs included the
London, Midland and Scottish Railway’s
Hughes Crab (1926), the
Southern Railway's
U class (1928), the
Stanier Mogul (1934), the
Ivatt Class 2 (1946), the
Ivatt Class 4 (1947), the
London and North Eastern Railway’s
Class K4 (1937) and the
Thompson/Peppercorn K1 class which were built in 1949–50 after the nationalisation of
British Railways. British Railways continued to build the Ivatt and Thompson/Peppercorn designs and then introduced three standard designs, based on the Ivatt classes. These were the
Standard Class 2 in 1952, the
Standard Class 4 in 1952 and the
Standard Class 3 in 1954. 2-6-0 locomotives continued to be built until 1957 and the last ones were withdrawn from service in 1968.
United States The first true with single-axle swivelling leading trucks were built in the United States in 1860 for the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad. The
New Jersey Locomotive and Machine Company built their first 2-6-0 in 1861, as the
Passaic for the
Central Railroad of New Jersey. The
Erie Railroad followed in 1862 with the first large order of this locomotive type. In 1863,
Rogers Locomotive & Machine Works built more for the
New Jersey Railroad and Transportation Company. The
Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) no. 600, a Mogul built at the B&O's
Mount Clare Shops in 1875, won first prize the following year at the
1876 Centennial Exposition in
Philadelphia. It is preserved at the
B&O Railroad Museum, housed in the former Mount Clare shops in
Baltimore. Well over 11,000 Moguls were constructed in the United States by the time production had ended in 1910. Very few of these classic steam locomotives still exist, most of them having been scrapped as newer, faster and more powerful steam engines were developed in the twentieth century. The
USRA standard designs of 1918 did not include a , though the
USRA 0-6-0 was designed so that it could be converted into a , with the Colorado Midland being the only known railroad to have done this. 2-6-0
No. 96, August 1970 2-6-0
No. 1744, 1982. 2-6-0
No. 89, 1993. Five notable 2-6-0 locomotives are still in operation in the United States. •
Southern Pacific No. 1744 has spent more time out of service than it did under its own power in the preservation era. It is now being planned to operate on the
Niles Canyon Railway in
Sunol, California. • Ex New Berlin & Winfield Railroad No. 2, built by the
Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1906, was rebuilt and is maintained by the
Midwest Central Railroad. •
Walt Disney World Railroad (WDWRR) No. 2
Lilly Belle, built in September 1928 by the
Baldwin Locomotive Works as No. 76 (later No. 260) for the
United Railways of Yucatán in Mexico, operates on the railroad circling the
Magic Kingdom in
Orlando, Florida since 1 October 1971. Due to mechanical problems, this locomotive was used exclusively for daily park opening ceremonies until it was shipped to the Strasburg Rail Road for an extensive overhaul in 2010. In late July 2016, it returned to the Magic Kingdom and resumed service on November 23, 2016. •
Canadian National 89 operates in excursion service on the
Strasburg Rail Road in
Strasburg, Pennsylvania. • Canadian National 91 operates in excursion service on the
Middletown and Hummelstown Railroad in
Hummelstown, Pennsylvania and is out of service undergoing an FRA inspection. •
Everett Railroad 11 operates tourist trains on the
Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania-based shortline. Preserved non-operating examples include: • The
Virginia & Truckee Railroad No. 13,
Empire at the
California State Railroad Museum in
Sacramento,
California. • The
Canadian National Railways No. 96 at the
Age of Steam Roundhouse in
Sugarcreek, Ohio. ==Notes==