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New South Wales 72 class locomotive
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Chullora Railway Workshops· from 1965· class of diesel locomotives of New South Wales
what is it?
The 72 class was a class of diesel locomotive built by Chullora Railway Workshops for the New South Wales, Australia, Department of Railways in 1965.
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 61 years ago, in 1965.
- 526 kW is about 6 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 9 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 13.7 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 11 years (1965–1976).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1965
- in service from
- 1965
- retired
- 1976
- status
- retired
- number built
- 1
- kind
- Diesel-hydraulic
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Chullora Railway Workshops
- operators
- Department of Railways New South Wales, New South Wales Government Railways
- top speed
- 72 km/h
- power
- 526 kW
- wheel arrangement
- Bo-Bo
- length
- 13.7 m
- weight
- 55.9 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7011641, Wikipedia: New South Wales 72 class locomotive (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.