WAGR C class (1880)

The WAGR C class of 1880 was a class of two steam locomotives built by Robert Stephenson and Company for the Western Australian Government Railways, to the same design as the NZR F class. They were ordered to work the first railway line in Perth, the Eastern Railway from Fremantle to Guildford, and entered service in 1881 as numbers 1 and 2, later C1 and C2. Because their fuel capacity proved too small as the network grew, both were rebuilt as 0-6-0STT saddle-tank engines with a small four-wheeled tender, and about 1900 both were sold to the timber industry. C1 is preserved at the Western Australian Rail Transport Museum.