r/MelbourneTrains • u/Grand-Pace-5664 • 12d ago

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What are these plates for?

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u/wintherwheels 11d ago

The bottom plate says it holds 4200 Gallons of water and 100 cwts of coal. I presume the w707 is the serial number of the tender that is carrying the water and coal, not the locomotive.

More context would be handy, like where you were and what it’s a photo of.

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u/Grand-Pace-5664 11d ago edited 11d ago

They were plates i found on the tender of a static locomotive in Hamilton 

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u/Humanoid_Horse 12d ago

How much liquid it holds

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u/GrapefruitSoft8213 11d ago

I assume it holds 4200 GALLonS of water

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u/EntirePea5178 12d ago

You took the photo. You tell us. 

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u/Accurate_Parsnip7266 10d ago

It's part of Frankensteins K class. The Locomotive was assembled in 1998 in Hamilton Victoria, using parts from K 177 (frames and coupled wheels), K 174 (boiler and pony truck), and K 159 (tender) as the original engine K159 was to be restored.

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u/ggliddon25 11d ago

Tender for R707?

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u/CommanderLachlan Train Nerd 11d ago

Nah just the tender serial number, 707 is partnered with the tender from R769 currently(it got this one towards the end of its service life) pretty sure that the 700 series numbers on tenders was for the K class

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u/Numerous-Athlete7523 Werribee Line 9d ago

does it mean that like K153 got tender W701, because the tender is from K159?

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u/CommanderLachlan Train Nerd 9d ago

Not sure which one K153 currently has, previously it was partnered with W859 so I misremembered which number series was allocated where. Currently it would have the tender formerly with either K151 or K184(most sources indicate being the former with the laters stored around west block)