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South Australian Railways 930 class
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by A. E. Goodwin· from 1955· class of 37 Australian diesel-electric locomotives
3 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Unit 935 Loco-South Australia: John Masson· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. Former South Australian Railways diesel locomotive no 930 at National Railway Museum, Port Adelaide, February 2022: SCHolar44· CC0
- 3. 930 class locomotive at Nuriootpa: John Burgess· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The South Australian Railways 930 class was a class of diesel-electric locomotives built for the South Australian Railways between 1955 and 1967 by AE Goodwin, Auburn, New South Wales, the Australian licensee of the American Locomotive Company (Alco). Based on the Alco DL500B World series model, they were fitted with Alco 12-251B four-stroke V12 turbocharged diesel engines that developed 1600 horsepower (1190 kilowatts) for traction. The first six of the class had a driving cab at one end only; the remaining 31 locomotives had two.
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 71 years ago, in 1955.
- 17.9 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1955–1967
- in service from
- 1955
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 37
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- A. E. Goodwin
- operators
- South Australian Railways
- top speed
- 113 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,600 mm Irish broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co-Co
- length
- 17.9 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7566148, Wikipedia: South Australian Railways 930 class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.