WAGR A Class No.5 'Edie'

Edie was a 2-6-0 tender locomotive.
== History ==
Edie was built by Beyer, Peacock and company as builders number 2245 of 1882 as part of the Western Australian Government Railways A class and numbered 5 and used on the Eastern Railway (ER). In 1902 Edie was sold to the Kalgoorlie and Boulder firewood company on their Broad Arrow Tramway and then named Edie. In 1904 Edie was loaned to Timms and company to construct a railway between Malcolm to Laverton after this contract finished Edie was returned.
Edie was transferred in 1905 to the Kalgoorlie and Boulder firewood companies old railway at Broad Arrow to the new railway at Lakeside being renamed Kurrawang. it operated here until 1912 when it was out use until 1920 when it was repaired by the Kalgoorlie Foundry and sold to Goodwood Timber company in Victoria in 1925, a hard life in the forest's of the area and a large number of derailments eventually left it beaten up. It's original tender being replaced with a crude makeshift wooden tender and the the regulator stuck wide open, forcing driver's to operate it with only the handbrakes and reversing lever. Kurrawang would continue operations on the Goodwood tramway until April 1936 when it was heavily damaged in after falling of a bridge, resulting in the death of the driver, it would be scrapped that same year.
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