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Australian National DL class
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Clyde Engineering· from 1988· class of 15 Australian diesel-electric locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. PN DL45 TwoWells Dec2007: Samuel Wittwer· CC BY 3.0
what is it?
The DL class are a class of diesel locomotives built by Clyde Engineering, Kelso for Australian National between 1988 and 1990. All units are stored as of 1 September 2023.
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 38 years ago, in 1988.
- Top speed is 1.2× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- 2.3 MW is about 27 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 20 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 19.7 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 35 years (1988–2023).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1988–1990
- in service from
- 1988
- retired
- 2023
- status
- retired
- number built
- 15
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Clyde Engineering
- operators
- Pacific National, Australian National Railways Commission, National Rail Corporation
- top speed
- 153 km/h
- power
- 2.3 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co-Co
- length
- 19.7 m
- weight
- 121 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q16926895, Wikipedia: Australian National DL class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.