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BHP Whyalla DE class
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Clyde Engineering· from 1956· class of diesel locomotives
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1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Genesee and Wyoming Australia diesel locos 1301 and CK4P hauling iron ore train near Whyalla velodrome, South Australia, 6 Dec 2012 (Mel Turner): Mel Turner· CC BY 4.0
what is it?
The BHP Whyalla DE class are a class of diesel locomotives built by Clyde Engineering, Granville for BHP between 1956 and 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 70 years ago, in 1956.
- Still in service after 70 years.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1956–1965
- in service from
- 1956
- status
- in service
- number built
- 9
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Clyde Engineering
- operators
- BHP Group
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Bo-Bo
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q16926978, Wikipedia: BHP Whyalla DE class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.