Melbourne and Hobson's Bay Railway Company 2-4-0WT (1854)

This was a group of 18 2-4-0WT passenger steam locomotives built by Robert Stephenson and Company for the early private railway operators of Victoria, Australia, together with one extra locomotive built from spare parts supplied with the other eighteen. The first two, for the Melbourne and Hobson's Bay Railway Company, arrived on 23 November 1854, and by April 1855 four were in service. Further engines were ordered over the years by the Melbourne and Hobson's Bay, Melbourne and Suburban, and St Kilda and Brighton companies, and later worked for the Victorian Railways. They provided the bulk of the early private operators' motive power, and on withdrawal they again proved useful as contractors' locomotives building lines of the expanding Victorian network. The last five were finally withdrawn between 1904 and 1906.