PBR No. 1711 "Sir John Grice"

No. 1711 is a small 0-4-0ST saddle tank steam locomotive built by Peckett & Sons in Bristol, England, which runs on the Puffing Billy Railway. This locomotive is sometimes called "Thomas the Tank Engine" for shows at Emerald in Australia. 
==History==
Built, and put to service, in 1926 for the West Melbourne site of the Metropolitan Gas Company and named "Sir John Grice" in 1928. Then, in 1941, this loco was withdrawn from service; stored; then sold to private hands in 1962; sold again in 1965 to the Whistle Stop Amusement Park in Frankston, south-east of Melbourne; stored again until the P.B.P.S. bought it in 1974. It was put into static display in the Steam Museum at Emerald. Between 1978 and 1981, when it was put back to service, the loco under-went a restoration. Which left it with a light green livery.
==Trivia==
*When this locomotive is named "Thomas the Tank Engine", it is transformed into Thomas by the addition of a fibreglass body in the shape of Thomas the tank engine.
==References==
*Puffing Billy.
*Puffing Billy.
Category:Steam locomotives
Category:Saddle tank locomotives
Category:Puffing Billy Railway
Category:Narrow-gauge steam locomotives
Category:Tank locomotives
Category:0-4-0 locomotives
Category:0-4-0 steam locomotives
Category:0-4-0ST steam locomotives
Category:Narrow-gauge locomotives
Category:Four-coupled locomotives
Category:0-4-0T steam locomotives
Category:Built in 1926
Category:Peckett locomotives
Category:Preserved locomotives
Category:Preserved steam locomotives