#3733
New South Wales X200 class locomotive
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Chullora Railway Workshops· from 1963· class of 18 Australian shunting tractors
what is it?
The X200 class were a class of rail tractors introduced in 1963 and operated by the New South Wales Government Railways of Australia. They were a development of the smaller and less numerous X100 class. The X200 class remained in service until 1990 when they were either withdrawn or sold off to private companies, and some remain operational today.
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 63 years ago, in 1963.
- Weighs about as much as 5 African elephants (~6 t each).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1963
- in service from
- 1963
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 6
- kind
- Diesel-mechanical
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Chullora Railway Workshops
- operators
- New South Wales Government Railways
- top speed
- 39 km/h
- power
- 194 kW
- wheel arrangement
- B
- length
- 6.1 m
- weight
- 30.5 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7011811, Wikipedia: New South Wales X200 class locomotive (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.