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New South Wales 42 class locomotive
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Clyde Engineering· from 1955· class of 6 Australian diesel-electric locomotives
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- 1. 4201 Return to Service Trip 16-09-2017: Trainman3801 at English Wikipedia· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The New South Wales 42 class is a class of diesel locomotives built by Clyde Engineering, Granville for the New South Wales Department of Railways in 1955/56.
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 71 years ago, in 1955.
- 1.3 MW is about 16 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 20 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 17.7 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 28 years (1955–1983).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1955–1956
- in service from
- 1955
- retired
- 1983
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 6
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Clyde Engineering
- operators
- Department of Railways New South Wales, New South Wales Government Railways
- top speed
- 114 km/h
- power
- 1.3 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co-Co
- length
- 17.7 m
- weight
- 122 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7011610, Wikipedia: New South Wales 42 class locomotive (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.