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New South Wales 41 class locomotive
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by British Thomson-Houston· from 1953· class of 10 British-built Australian diesel-electric locomotives
what is it?
The 41 class are a class of diesel locomotives built by British Thomson-Houston in the United Kingdom for the New South Wales Department of Railways in 1953 and 1954.
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 73 years ago, in 1953.
- Weighs about as much as 14 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 13.1 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 22 years (1953–1975).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1953
- in service from
- 1953
- retired
- 1975
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 10
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- British Thomson-Houston
- operators
- Department of Railways New South Wales, New South Wales Government Railways
- top speed
- 92 km/h
- power
- 298 kW
- wheel arrangement
- Bo'Bo'
- length
- 13.1 m
- weight
- 83.3 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7011604, Wikipedia: New South Wales 41 class locomotive (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.