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WAGR Y class
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by British Thomson-Houston· from 1953· class of 18 Australian 410hp Bo′Bo′ diesel-electric locomotives
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- 1. Y1114 Picton, 1986: Bahnfrend· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The Y class is a class of 18 diesel locomotives built by British Thomson-Houston and Clayton Equipment Company for the Western Australian Government Railways between 1953 and 1955. British Thomson-Houston supplied the electrical control equipment but the mechanical work, assembly and testing was carried out by Clayton Equipment Company at their premises in Hatton, Derbyshire. The locomotives carried separate builders plates for each company.
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.
- 306 kW is about 4 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 7 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 10 m long: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 27 years (1953–1980).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1953–1955
- in service from
- 1953
- retired
- 1980
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 18
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- British Thomson-Houston, Clayton Equipment Company
- operators
- Western Australian Government Railways
- top speed
- —
- power
- 306 kW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Bo-Bo
- length
- 10 m
- weight
- 39 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7946451, Wikipedia: WAGR Y class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.