page_title: Victorian Railways H class
section_title: Preservation
hierarchical_section_title: Victorian Railways H class / Preservation
caption_attribution_description: English: Victorian Railways "H" class 3 cylinder 4-8-4 steam locomotive No. 220. It is seen here preserved at the ARHS North Williamstown Railway Museum.
context_page_description: The Victorian Railways H class was an express passenger steam locomotive operated by the Victorian Railways from 1941 to 1958. Intended to eliminate the use of double heading A2 class locomotives on The Overland services on the steeply graded Western line to Adelaide, wartime restrictions led to only one locomotive being built. Nicknamed Heavy Harry, H220 was the largest locomotive ever built in Australia and the largest non-articulated steam locomotive to run on Australian railways.
context_section_description: H220 survived more-or-less intact until 1960, when the Australian Railway Historical Society successfully lobbied for the establishment of a railway museum. H220 entered the Australian Railway Historical Society Museum at Williamstown North in 1962, and since this date has been its star exhibit.
  In April 2008, 50 years after its official withdrawal from service, H220 was added to the Victorian Heritage Register. Heritage Council chairman Chris Gallagher noted that H220 represented the peak of steam motive power technology in Victoria and warranted the state's highest level of heritage protection.
  It is believed that H220 is now the world's only remaining example of a three-cylinder 4-8-4.
caption: H220, in static preservation at the Australian Railway Historical Society Museum
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