"Tuscan Terriers and Mallee Mustard Pots (A Fond Salute to the 48 & 830 Classes)"
By Rod Milne
Paperback cover 48 pages black/white photos
INTRODUCTION
Numerically Australia's largest ever diesel locomotive type the combined fleets of the 48 and 830 classes of the railways of New South Wales and South Australia comprised 210 units in all at greatest extent, in the early 1970s. The size of the fleet to a large extent indicates the absolute faith placed in the basic design of this Goodwin Alco light type branch line unit, upon whose shoulders the task of dieselising most of the minor and secondary line networks of the great states of NSW and SA fell. It was a successful locomotive type indeed, only rivalled by the 44/930 type World series locos that numbered 137 units in all and the recent NR class that has grown (as at 1998) to 120 units.