WAGR G Class No.17 'Silver King'

Silver King was a 2-6-0 tender locomotive.
== History ==
Silver King was built in 1885 by Beyer, Peacock and company as builders number 2688 for C. and E. Millar and named Silver King it was used for the construction of the Petersburg/Peterborough to Cockburn railway in South Australia. C. and E. Millar moved into Western Australia in 1887 to construct the Great Southern Railway which was completed in around 1888.
And was sold to the Western Australian Government Railways in 1889 and classed G and numbered 17 it worked network wide. Silver King was sold to Commonwealth Railways in 1942 for service on the North Australia Railway and originally classed Nga and carried WAGR number until 1943 when Silver King was reclassed as Nfc and numbered 73 and renumbered 72 later that year. It was sold in 1947 to the W.A. Goldfields Firewood Supply Limited in Kalgoorlie. Silver King was scrapped by 1960.
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