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Commonwealth Railways NC class
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Clyde Engineering· from 1956· Two light, narrow-gauge diesel-hydraulic locomotives of the Commonwealth Railways, built in 1956
what is it?
The Commonwealth Railways NC class consisted of two diesel-hydraulic locomotives built by Clyde Engineering, Granville, New South Wales in 1956. The Lakewood Firewood Company, Kalgoorlie was the first owner; the Commonwealth Railways purchased them in 1965. They ceased revenue service in the early 1980s.
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.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1956
- in service from
- 1956
- number built
- 2
- kind
- Diesel-hydraulic
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Clyde Engineering
- operators
- Commonwealth Railways
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- length
- 7.7 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q6953254, Wikipedia: Commonwealth Railways NC class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.