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Silverton Tramway 48s class
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by A. E. Goodwin· from 1960· alco model DL531 diesel-electric locomotive
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Near Redfern station - panoramio: Maksym Kozlenko· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The Silverton Tramway 48s class are a class of diesel locomotives built by AE Goodwin, Auburn for the Silverton Tramway in 1960–1961. The State Rail Authority 48 class and South Australian Railways 830 class are of a very similar design.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 66 years ago, in 1960.
- 783 kW is about 9 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 13 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 13.4 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- Still in service after 66 years.
tram / light rail: Street-running or light-rail vehicles that share or skirt the road.
spec sheet
- built
- 1960–1961
- in service from
- 1960
- status
- in service
- number built
- 3
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- A. E. Goodwin
- operators
- Southern & Silverton Rail
- top speed
- 121 km/h
- power
- 783 kW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co-Co
- length
- 13.4 m
- weight
- 75.2 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7516851, Wikipedia: Silverton Tramway 48s class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.