"Puffing Billy" Tank Locomotive on Unique Transporter Wagon
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A circa 1900 type 3A tank locomotive 'Puffing Billy' with green livery, assembled at the Newport works, commencing service on 23rd April 1900, initially used in the construction of the upper Ferntree Gully to Gembrook 'Puffing Billy' narrow gauge railway line. the locomotive is being carried on a 1926 'Q' class transporter wagon (Q129), a unique wagon used to transport 2ft 6ins narrow gauge rolling stock over Victorian broad gauge track to narrow gauge railway lines, total size (144 x 34 x 55 mm). (2 items).
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- Circa - A Latin term meaning 'about', often used in the antique trade to give an approximate date for the piece, usually considered to be five years on either side of the circa year. Thus, circa 1900 means the piece was made about 1900, probably between 1895 and 1905. The expression is sometimes abbreviated to c.1900.
- Victorian Period - The Victorian period of furniture and decorative arts design covers the reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1901. There was not one dominant style of furniture in the Victorian period. Designers used and modified many historical styles such as Gothic, Tudor, Elizabethan, English Rococo, Neoclassical and others, although use of some styles, such as English Rococo and Gothic tended to dominate the furniture manufacture of the period.
The Victorian period was preceded by the Regency and William IV periods, and followed by the Edwardian period, named for Edward VII (1841 ? 1910) who was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India for the brief period from 1901 until his death in 1910. - 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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