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Downer EDI Rail GT46C
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Clyde Engineering· from 1997· class of Australian diesel-electric locomotives
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Australian Railroad Group Q4018 Ore: DBZ2313 at English Wikipedia· CC BY 3.0
- 2. Q 4001 Downer EDI Rail GT46C Aurizon: EurovisionNim· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Downer EDI Rail GT46C is a model of diesel-electric locomotive designed and built by Clyde Engineering using Electro-Motive Diesel components. A number of Australian rail freight operators purchased them from 2022; Aurizon designated its units as the Q/FQ/V class. As of July 2022, all 24 locomotives are owned by Aurizon.
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 29 years ago, in 1997.
- 3.1 MW is about 36 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 22 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 22 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 6 years (1997–2003).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1997–2003
- in service from
- 1997
- retired
- 2003
- status
- in service
- number built
- 24
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Clyde Engineering, Downer Rail
- operators
- Aurizon, Pacific National, FreightLink, Freight Australia, Genesee & Wyoming Australia, Westrail
- top speed
- 115 km/h
- power
- 3.1 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co-Co
- length
- 22 m
- weight
- 134 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5303111, Wikipedia: Downer EDI Rail GT46C (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.