NSWGR - Indian Red with Red Lining
This version will feature Indian Red with Red Lining without nose handrails
 This version will feature Indian Red with Red Lining without nose handrails
This version will feature Indian Red with Red Lining with nose handrails fitted
 This version will feature Indian Red with Red Lining with nose handrails fitted
NSWGR - Indian Red with No Red Lining
This version will feature Indian Red without Red Lining with nose handrails fitted
 This version will feature Indian Red without Red Lining with nose handrails fitted
NSWGR - Indian Red Austerity
 This version will feature Indian Red Austerity livery with nose handrails fitted
 This version will feature Indian Red Austerity livery with nose handrails fitted
NSWGR - Reverse
This version will feature Reverse livery with nose handrails fitted
SRA - Candy
This version will feature Candy livery with nose handrails fitted
 This version will feature Candy livery with nose handrails fitted
This version will feature Candy livery with nose handrails fitted
 This version will feature Candy livery with nose handrails fitted
Northern Rivers Railroad
This version will feature Northern Rivers Railroad Green & Cream livery without nose handrails
This version will feature Northern Rivers Railroad Blue, Orange & Yellow livery without nose handrails
Interail
This version will feature Interail Blue, Orange & Yellow livery without nose handrails
QR National
This version will feature QR National Yellow & Black livery as freshly painted without nose handrails, ditch lights or side numbers
Aurizon
Chumrail
421 Class Locomotive - Prototype Overview
In December of 1965 the
NSWGR took delivery of 42101, the first unit of an order for ten
locomotives to be built by Clyde Engineering at their Granville
plant in suburban
Over the years the class received very few external modifications,
the application of grab irons on each side of the nose in the late
1960s and fitting of a new exhaust stack configuration in the late
1970s being the only changes applied to the class under public
ownership.
When 42101 was repainted in mid 1976 it received the first of a
number of livery changes to be applied to the class over their
career, when the red cheat lines between the Indian red and yellow
lining was deleted from the scheme.
Units 42102 and 42106 also received this modified livery when
repainted in late 1977.
Further changes to the livery over the next couple of years saw most
of the yellow along the sides removed from the paint scheme as well
as a number of variations to the wings, lining, emblem and number
placement. Often
referred to as the “Austerity” livery, units 42103, 42105, 42107,
42108, 42109 and 42110 were all repainted during this period however
no two received identical paint schemes.
In November 1979 the last 421 to retain its original livery, 42104,
was repainted in the new “reverse” livery, this unit being part of
the first batch of locomotives in the fleet to receive this paint
scheme.
In late 1982 the candy livery was introduced across the fleet and in
September 1983 unit 42101 was the first of the class to receive the
new livery. Units 42102,
42103, 42105, 42106, 42107 and 42108 would follow over the years
however, and similar to the Austerity livery, no two loco repaints
were the same with different application of the horizontal striping,
roof colours, L7 logos and number placements applied to each unit.
After some 20 years of Railway service, the first unit to be
withdrawn was reverse liveried 42104 in early December 1986, with
the remainder of the class succumbing by early January 1987.
The class then spent the next few years in storage prior to
being condemned in 1990, although 42107 did enjoy a brief return to
service in 1989.
During 1990 locomotives 42103, 42105, 42107 and 42109 were sold to
the Tweed Byron Scenic Railway, as part of their plan to set up a
tourist railway operating on the Murwillumbah branch
In January 1992 this entity became the Northern River
Railroad (NRR). Unit
42103 was the first to be restored and it was painted in a green and
cream livery in May 1993 to match passenger cars already acquired
for the planned tourist service.
When the restoration of 42107 and 42109 was completed in
March 1997 the units emerged in a new livery of blue, yellow, orange
and white. Unit 42105
also received this new livery when it returned to service in June
1998. Initially NRR was involved with hook and pull freight working between Grafton and Murwillumbah before commencement of the Ritz Rail tourist train in April 1999. Over time various freight and infrastructure contracts often saw the NRR locomotives working away from their Casino base. In March 2002 Queensland Rail bought the freight assets and operations of NRR, renaming it Interail. At this time Interail signage replaced the former NRR emblems on the locomotive fleet. Interail continued to haul the Ritz Rail tourist train under a hook and pull arrangement until the demise of the service in December 2002. Freight operations expanded under the new name with the 421’s being part of their growing coal and intermodal business.
Following the formation of QRNational in 2004/05 all new “Interail”
business was done under the new name.
In September 2008 green and cream liveried 42103 was painted
into the yellow and black QRNational paint scheme.
During 2009 unit 42109 was placed into storage, where it still
remains. In January 2013
units 42103 and 42105 were stored, which then left only 42107 as
operational. In December
2013 42103 was returned to service as part of the Glencore grain
contract fleet. 421 Class Locomotive - Prototype Photos
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