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South Australian Railways 600 class (diesel)
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by A. E. Goodwin· from 1965· class of 7 Australian diesel-electric locomotives
what is it?
The 600 class are a class of diesel-electric locomotives manufactured by AE Goodwin, Auburn for the South Australian Railways between 1965 and 1970.
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 61 years ago, in 1965.
- 1.5 MW is about 17 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 19 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 16.5 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Still in service after 61 years.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1965–1970
- in service from
- 1965
- status
- in service
- number built
- 7
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- A. E. Goodwin
- operators
- South Australian Railways
- top speed
- 121 km/h
- power
- 1.5 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co-Co
- length
- 16.5 m
- weight
- 112 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7566141, Wikipedia: South Australian Railways 600 class (diesel) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.