South Australian Railways Gb class

The South Australian Railways Gb Class Locomotives entered service with the South Australian Railways on the 16th of December 1899 following the purchase of the of the Glenelg Railway Company by the SAR. These locomotives were built by Robert Stephenson and Company in 1874 and 1878. The locomotive built in 1874 enter service on the Adelaide Glenelg & Suburban Railway Company as No. 4. No. 4 was sold to the Glenelg Railway Company in November 1881 and became their No. 4. The locomotive built in 1878 entered service on the Adelaide Glenelg & Suburban Railway Company as No. 5, it was then sold to the Glenelg Railway Company and became their No. 5. They were classed Gb when the SAR purchased the Glenelg Railway Company in 1899 and got renumbered 158 and 159. No. 158 was condemned as of the 12th of December 1904. No. 159 on the other hand a longer career being withdrawn on the 21st of February 1916, then being condemned in December 1921 and ultimately scrapped in 1922.