South Australian Railways C class

The South Australian Railways C class was a pair of locomotives built by Robert Stephenson and Company for the South Australian Railways in 1856. Number 5 was in service by November 1856 and number 6 by January 1857. They were bought after the railway had its new B class tank engines built for the line to Gawler, to run the same lightly engineered service, and once the extension opened in August 1860 their range reached Roseworthy and Kapunda. They also worked the construction of the Tarlee line. Both were rebuilt in 1884 and 1885 with new cabs having circular front and side windows. Number 5 was condemned in 1906 after fifty years of work, while number 6 moved to suburban and shunting duties at Mile End and Port Adelaide and was withdrawn and scrapped in 1926.