The Geelong and Melbourne Railway Company operated four 2-2-2WT locomotives between 1856 and 1860, and the Victorian Railways ran them afterwards from 1860 until 1889. The first two, named Titania and Oberon, were built by Robert Stephenson and Company with works numbers 1006 and 1007, and were completed and shipped to Victoria on the vessel Thames on 1 August 1855. The second pair were named Typhoon and Sirocco, and the article does not say who built them. On 3 September 1860 the Victorian Railways bought all four and numbered them 34, 36, 38 and 40. Titania and Oberon were used as shunters at the Williamstown Workshops in 1872 and were sold out of railway service in June 1889, Titania to Swan Hill Shire and later to the Sunshine Harvester Works of H. V. McKay and Company, and Oberon to Riley Brothers. Typhoon and Sirocco ended their days as stationary engines.
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being completed and shipped on the vessel Thames on the 1st of August 1855
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The first two locomotives were built by Robert Stephenson and Company
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The first two locomotives were built by Robert Stephenson and Company
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