The CK class were ex V/line T class locomotive

Locomotive

A locomotive is a railway vehicle that provides the motive power for a train. The word originates from the Latin loco – "from a place", ablative of locus, "place" + Medieval Latin motivus, "causing motion", and is a shortened form of the term locomotive engine, first used in the early 19th...

s bought off V/line to be used on the Australian National Broad gauge network.

AN Sale

With the sale of Australian National in 1997 the 5 members of the CK class passed over to Australian Southern Railroad, Australian Railway Group and GW Australia in 2006 with the sale of most of the Australia Railway Group. CK2 was sold to SCT Group and was overhauled and renumbered to its original number (T404) and is now used as one of their shunters.

Today

All 4 remaining CK class are now working at Whyalla with CK1 on the Standard Gauge hotmetal shunt at the Whyalla Steelworks. While CK3, CK4, CK5 see use on the Narrow Gauge, CK5 is normally the Pellet shunter which moves ore pellets from the pellet plant to the blast furnace. While the other two are used on the so called main line to Iron Duke which carries ore for export.

See also

VR T class

Victorian Railways T class (diesel)

The Victorian Railways T class diesel electric locomotive are a small branch line and shunting unit built by Clyde Engineering . They were the most numerous class of diesel locomotives in the state....

Australian National