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Victorian Railways Dd class
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Baldwin Locomotive Works· from 1902· class of 261 Australian 4-6-0 locomotives
what is it?
The DD class (later reclassified into D1, D2 and D3 subclasses) is a passenger and mixed traffic steam locomotive that ran on Victorian Railways from 1902 to 1974. Originally introduced on mainline express passenger services, they were quickly superseded by the much larger A2 class and were relegated to secondary and branch line passenger and goods service, where they gave excellent service for the next fifty years. The DD design was adapted into a 4-6-2T tank locomotive for suburban passenger use, the DDE (later D4) class.
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 124 years ago, in 1902.
- Weighs about as much as 9 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 17.4 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 72 years (1902–1974).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1902
- in service from
- 1902
- retired
- 1974
- status
- retired
- number built
- 261
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Baldwin Locomotive Works, Beyer, Peacock and Company, Walkers Limited, Phoenix Foundry, Ballarat North Workshops, Bendigo Workshops, Newport Workshops
- operators
- Victorian Railways
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,600 mm Irish broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 4-6-0
- length
- 17.4 m
- weight
- 53.8 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7927264, Wikipedia: Victorian Railways Dd class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.