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WAGR X class
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Beyer, Peacock and Company· from 1954· Australian diesel-electric locomotive class
3 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. XA1401: Bahnfrend· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. WAGR X class of the Hotham Valley Railway at Pinjarra, November 2019 01: Calistemon· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. WAGR X class of the Hotham Valley Railway at Pinjarra, November 2019 02: Calistemon· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The WAGR X class is a now-withdrawn class of diesel locomotives built by Beyer, Peacock & Company and Metropolitan-Vickers, Bowesfield Works, Stockton-on-Tees for the Western Australian Government Railways (WAGR) between 1954 and 1956. Several members of the class have been preserved.
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 72 years ago, in 1954.
- 779 kW is about 9 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 13 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 14.6 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 34 years (1954–1988).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1954–1956
- in service from
- 1954
- retired
- 1988
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 48
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Beyer, Peacock and Company, Metropolitan-Vickers
- operators
- Western Australian Government Railways
- top speed
- 89 km/h
- power
- 779 kW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2′Do2′
- length
- 14.6 m
- weight
- 80 t
- nicknames
- Hummingbirds, Submarines
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7946450, Wikipedia: WAGR X class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.