An 1879 I Class tank engine, road number '48' (80 x 33 x 40 mm) built by Neilson & Co (Glasgow, Scotland), yellow-brown livery with gold plated trim, 0-4-0 wheel configuration, also a wagon loaded with aggregate, and an unfinished wagon. (3 items) (originally built in 1873 for the Canterbury Provincial Railway (NZ) to work the broad gauge Christchurch to Lytttleton railway, it was purchased by SAR in 1878 and loaded onto the 'Hyderabad' for transit to Port Adelaide, however the ship was wrecked off North Island, NZ. the locomotive was eventually salvaged and sent on to Port Adelaide entering service in 1879 with road number '38' which was later change to '48'. It was was put to work at Morgan on the Murray river where it shunted the station yard and wharf area).
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- Gauge - The first model railways had a track width of 48mm (1.89 inches) which was named 1 gauge. With smaller key-wind locomotives a narrower gauge was introduced, call 0 gauge, and then in the early 20th century "half 0" (or HO) gauge was introduced. In Britain and the Commonwealth countries this was called "00" gauge.
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