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Commonwealth Railways oval cast metal plaque

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CC BY-SA 4.0
Type
Coats of arms
Date
1951
Place
Trans-Australian Railway, Port Augusta, Australia; South Australia, Australia
Materials
Metal - non specific, Paint - non specific
Collection
Australian National Railways Commission collection
Accession number
1998.0028.0013

Description

Commonwealth Railways oval cast metal plaque. The Australian coat-of-arms are on a blue-grey background above "CR", and the plaque has a gold border.

This plaque comes from a Commonwealth Railways diesel GM class locomotive, which would have been in service on the Trans-Australian railway from 1951.

Read live from the Museum's Collection API (12/11/2026, 4:58:35 am). Record last updated by the Museum 2025-06-30. Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.