Written By: Thomas McIntosh
Photos By: Thomas McIntosh, Thomas Bulic and Declan Goodsell, Simon Barber, Dean Jones, Joshua Watson and Ian Green

​Page Last Updated: 17/6/20

4911-4908-BRM001-GM10-4904-RL304 with #3248 at Wingello. (15/1/20)
​Photo By: Thomas McIntosh

Between 1960 and 1964, Clyde Engineering produced eighteen 49 class locomotives for the NSWGR. The locomotives weigh 80 tonnes and have a top speed of 125 km/h. In the early days of their career they were used to haul trains in the Western and North of NSW on both branch and main lines, as well as metropolitan trip trains across Sydney. 

Today, 7 of the original 18 remain in service with Southern Shorthaul Railroad and the Manildra Group.
6 have been scrapped and 4 are preserved. 

4904-RL305-RL306 with SSR grain #2347 at Tahmoor. (12/10/19)
​Photo By: Thomas Bulic

4908-4904 with an SSR maintenance train at Como. (11/11/17)
​Photo By: Declan Goodsell

Locomotive Status

Road No.

4901
4902
​4903
​4904
​4905
​4906
​4907
​4908
​4909
​4910
​4911
​​4912
​​4913
​​4914
​​4915
​​4916
​​4917
​​491​8

Livery

FreightCorp G&Y
FreightCorp G&Y
Patrick Portlink
SSR Yellow & Black
T.E Orange
Patrick Portlink
​Manildra B&Y
Greentrains
Candy
SSR Yellow & Black
CRL
Candy
Manildra B&Y
Candy
Indian Red
Candy
SSR Yellow & Black
​Tuscan

Owner

Interail
Private
LVR
SSR
Traction Engineering
LVR
Manildra Group
SSR
Interail
SSR
SSR
Interail
Manildra Group
Interail
State Rail
THNSW
SSR
Dorrigo Museum

Begun Service

Sep 1960
Oct 1960
Nov 1960 
Dec 1960
Feb 1961
Mar 1961
Jun 1962
Jul 1962
Jul 1962
Aug 1962
Oct 1962
Nov 1962
Jun 1964
Jun 1964
Jul 1964
Aug 1964
Aug 1964
Sep 1964

Current State

Scrapped
Scrapped
Preserved
Operational
Preserved - Static
Preserved
Conv - MM01
Operational
Scrapped
Operational
Operational
Scrapped
Conv - MM02
Scrapped
Scrapped
Preserved
Operational
​Preserved

Photos of 49 Classes

4901

4901-4820 with a light engine at Parramatta. (10/1/91)
Photo By: Simon Barber

4902

4902 shunting in Broken Hill. (17/1/89)
Photo By: Simon Barber

4903

4903 stabled in Rothbury. (22/1/19)
Both Photos By: Joshua Watson

4904

4904-RL305-RL306 with #2347 north of Goulburn. (12/10/19)
​Photo By: Dean Jones

4904-RL305-RL306 with #2347 at Alymerton. (12/10/19)
​Photo By: Thomas Bulic

4905

4905 in storage at Seymour. (4/1/18)
Photo By: Thomas Bulic

4906

4906 next to 42105 in Goulburn. (20/10/18)
Photo By: Thomas Bulic

4907 - MM01

MM01 in Manildra. (24/2/15)
Photo By: Dean Jones

4908

4908 trailing a light engine at Wentworthville. (23/1/18)
Photo By: Thomas Bulic

4908 at Cootamundra. (4/10/19)
Photo By: Thomas McIntosh

4910

4910-602 with a B set transfer at Thornleigh. (23/9/18)
Photo By: Thomas Bulic

4910-4908 with a light engine at Wentworthville. (23/1/18)
Photo By: Thomas Bulic

4911

4911-4917 with a track machine transfer at South Dynon. (1/11/16)
​Photo By: Ian Green

4911-C505-602 on a spark transfer at Rhodes. (22/1/19)
Photo By: Thomas Bulic

4912

4912-4910 with a ballast train at Manor Loop. (13/3/95)
Photo By: Ian Green

4912-T373 stabled with a SG works train at Newport. (5/9/94)
Photo By: Ian Green

4913 - MM02

MM02 loads wagons in the flour mill at Gunnedah. (29/5/18)
Photo By: Dean Jones

4917

4917 at the Lithgow State Mine. (28/7/18)
Photo By: Thomas Bulic

4917 trailing 4911 at Albion. (1/11/16)
​Photo By: Ian Green

All information sourced by Wikipedia and Railpage