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South Australian Railways 700 class (diesel)
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by A. E. Goodwin· from 1971· class of 6 Australian diesel-electric locomotives
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2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Penrice limestone train, Tanunda: Fairv8· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. Former South Australian Railways diesel-electric locomotive no 703 at National Railway Museum (Bob Sampson): Robert Sampson· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The 700 class is a class of six diesel-electric locomotives based on the Alco DL500G model, built by AE Goodwin, Auburn, New South Wales for the South Australian Railways. They are virtually identical to the New South Wales 442 class locomotive.
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 55 years ago, in 1971.
- 1.5 MW is about 18 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 19 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 18.7 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 44 years (1971–2015).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1971–1972
- in service from
- 1971
- retired
- 2015
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 6
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- A. E. Goodwin
- operators
- South Australian Railways, Australian National Railways Commission, One Rail Australia
- top speed
- 112 km/h
- power
- 1.5 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co-Co
- length
- 18.7 m
- weight
- 112 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7566142, Wikipedia: South Australian Railways 700 class (diesel) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.