WAGR A Class No.7 'Robb's Engine'

Robb's Engine was a 2-6-0 tender locomotive.
== History ==
Robb's Engine was purchased by John Robb to use as a contractors loco on the Eastern Railway of the Western Australian Government Railways. Robb's Engine as it was nicknamed was built by Beyer Peacock and company as builders number 1903 of 1879 arriving at Fremantle in 1880 and after the line was finished was sold to the Western Australian Government who operated the WAGR and number 3 until 1884 when it was sold to Edward Keane railway contractor who used Robb's Engine to extend the Eastern Railway from Guildford to York and used on the construction of the Midland Railway (operated by the Midland Railway of Western Australia Company).
Under Keane's ownership Robb's Engine was numbered A1 with "E.K." written on the tender. Robb's Engine was then sold back to the WAGR in 1895 and numbered 7 until 1902 when it was sold of to George Baxter who owned and operated the Preston Saw Mills. Which were taken over by the W.A. Jarrah Saw Mills limited in 1903 and Robb's Engine is transferred in 1909 to the Mill at St John's Brook which was taken over by the Kauri Timber Company in early 1913. And Robb's Engine continued to work at Nannup and Barrabup mills until 1943 being fitted with a G class tender from locomotive "Kauri" and Robb's Engine's tender fitted to South Australian Railways Y Class No.109 and Robb's Engine scrapped at sometime after.
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