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New South Wales D50 class locomotive
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Beyer, Peacock and Company· from 1896· class of 280 Australian 2-8-0 locomotives
what is it?
The New South Wales D50 class is a class of 2-8-0 steam locomotives operated by the New South Wales Government Railways in Australia.
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 130 years ago, in 1896.
- Weighs about as much as 11 African elephants (~6 t each).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1896–1916
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 280
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Beyer, Peacock and Company, Dübs and Company, Neilson and Company, North British Locomotive Company, Clyde Engineering
- operators
- New South Wales Government Railways
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-8-0
- weight
- 63.1 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q16926650, Wikipedia: New South Wales D50 class locomotive (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.