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English: This image has been digitised from Queensland State Archives, Series ID S2149: Railway Glass Plate Negatives - Queensland Rail Heritage Collection. The boiler of this locomotive exploded on 2 December 1898 at Roma Street, Brisbane. The locomotive was an American built QGR Class A 12, No. 62, built by Baldwin Locomotive Works. Information about this locomotive can be found in the 1898 Votes and Proceedings of the Queensland Legislative Assembly volume 1 commencing on page 315. The Court of Enquiry into the explosion was recorded in the 1899 Votes and Proceedings of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.

Learn more about this image at the State Library of Queensland: http://hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/116504
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Wrecked A12 Class steam locomotive after its boiler exploded, Brisbane, 1898

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