Re: Pimba, Woomera & Roxby Downs - locos

["John Browning" <ceo8@rocknet.net.au>]

These are the details I have of the locomotives that worked at Woomera. I
would be very interested in any further information.

John Fowler   22905   12/1943   Std.   0-4-0DM   60hp
ordered by British Ministry of Supply for War Department (U.K.)
Shell Refining Co. Ltd., Stanlow, Cheshire, U.K., c.1944 (on loan)	W.D.230 
British War Department Ordnance Depot, Cwmavon, Glamorgan, U.K. by 1946
W.D.230
British War Department, Woomera, South Australia, 1947	W.D.230
Commonwealth Department of Supply, (with base)					W.D.230
out of use by 1967
Simsmetal Pty. Ltd., Wingfield, South Australia, by 1981				W.D.230
believed sold or scrapped

General Electric  17933  27/8/1943  Std  Bo-Bo DE  44 tons
ordered by United States Army Transportation Corps					
built for US Army Export								7920
Commonwealth Department of Supply, St Mary’s Munitions Works, NSW		7920
New South Wales Government Railways						7920
Christmas Island Phosphate Commission, 1974 					9401
rebuilt by F.R.Tulk & Co Pty Ltd, Perth, 1979
Phosphate Mining Company of Christmas Island, 1981				9401
out of use 1987

General Electric  17934  27/8/1943  Std  Bo-Bo DE  44 tons
ordered by United States Army Transportation Corps
built for US Army export									7922
Commonwealth Department of Supply, St Mary’s Munitions Works, NSW (believed
never used)	7922
Commonwealth Department of Supply, Long Range Weapons Project, Woomera, SA,
1948
Commonwealth Railways, SA, 1950							DE91
out of use by 1982
Port Dock Railway Museum Inc, SA

General Electric  17938  9/8/1943  Std  Bo-Bo DE  44 tons
ordered by United States Army Transportation Corps						
despatched to War Department, port of embarkation					7923
Commonwealth Department of Supply, St Mary’s Munitions Works, NSW (believed
never used)	7923
New South Wales Government Railways, 1948						7923
Christmas Island Phosphate Commission, 1974						9402
rebuilt by F.R.Tulk & Co Pty Ltd, Perth, c.1979
Phosphate Mining Company of Christmas Island, 1981					9402
out of use 1987

General Electric  17939  9/8/1943  Std  Bo-Bo DE  44 tons
ordered by United States Army Transportation Corps                         
                                     
despatched to War Department, port of embarkation                          
                                  7921
Commonwealth Department of Supply, St Mary’s Munitions Works, NSW (believed
never used)      7921
Commonwealth Department of Supply, Long Range Weapons Project, Woomera, SA,
1948
Commonwealth Railways, SA, 1950                                            
                                        DE90
out of use by 1982
NSW Rail Transport Museum, Thirlmere