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GML10
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Clyde Engineering· from 1990· diesel-electric locomotive in Australia
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. GML 10 QUBE, Fremantle: Sam Wilson (taken with Sony RX100 mk.V )· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
GML10 is a diesel-electric locomotive built by Clyde Engineering, Kelso for the Goldsworthy Mining Company in 1990. It is currently operated by Qube.
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 36 years ago, in 1990.
- 2.3 MW is about 27 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 22 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 18.9 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Still in service after 36 years.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1990
- in service from
- 1990
- status
- in service
- number built
- 1
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Clyde Engineering
- operators
- Qube Logistics
- top speed
- 121 km/h
- power
- 2.3 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co-Co
- length
- 18.9 m
- weight
- 132 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5513772, Wikipedia: GML10 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.