JGR Class 1530

The JGR Class 1530 (originally the Kyushu Railway Class 25) was a 0-6-0T Switcher-type side tank steam locomotive operated by the Japanese Government Railways from 1894 to 1963.
==History==
The Class 1530 was an early steam locomotive operated in Japan. The type was ordered by the Kyushu Railway, with two locomotives manufactured by Sharp, Stewart and Company of the United Kingdom and imported into Japan in 1894. These were classified as the Class 25 and numbered 25 and 26.
After the Railway Nationalization Act was passed in 1909, the locomotives were renumbered the Class 1530. The locomotives were subsequently mainly used in the Karafuto Prefecture and later in South Sakhalin during World War II. The locomotives were last seen on the JGR in 1945, after which they were likely requisitioned into the Soviet Railways; it is unclear what happened to the locomotives afterwards. No Class 1530s have been preserved, likely having been scrapped in South Sakhalin.
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