#4847
Australian National AN class
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Clyde Engineering· from 1992· class of 11 Australian diesel-electric locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. AN11-locomotive: Marcus Wong Wongm· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The AN class is a class of diesel locomotives built by Clyde Engineering, Somerton for Australian National in 1992–1993.
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 34 years ago, in 1992.
- Top speed is 1.2× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- 3 MW is about 36 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- 22.6 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
- Still in service after 34 years.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1992–1993
- in service from
- 1992
- status
- in service
- number built
- 11
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Clyde Engineering
- operators
- Australian National Railways Commission, National Rail Corporation, The Ghan, Pacific National
- top speed
- 150 km/h
- power
- 3 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co-Co
- length
- 22.6 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q4653112, Wikipedia: Australian National AN class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.