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New South Wales 421 class locomotive
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Clyde Engineering· from 1965· class of 10 Australian diesel-electric locomotives
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. 42103 passing Wagga Wagga railway station: Bidgee· CC BY-SA 3.0 au
- 2. 42103 GM22 Mildura: Aulj7· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The 421 class are a class of diesel locomotives built by Clyde Engineering, Granville for the Department of Railways New South Wales in 1965/66. These mainline locomotives were a follow on from the 42 class. The 421s retained the classic bulldog nose as with the other Clyde built GM and S locomotives at one end, but featured a flat-cab at the other end.
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 61 years ago, in 1965.
- 1.4 MW is about 16 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 18 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 17.4 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 1 years (1965–1966).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1965–1966
- in service from
- 1965
- retired
- 1966
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 10
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Clyde Engineering
- operators
- New South Wales Government Railways
- top speed
- 113 km/h
- power
- 1.4 MW
- wheel arrangement
- Co-Co
- length
- 17.4 m
- weight
- 110 t
- nicknames
- Rocking Horses
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q16927343, Wikipedia: New South Wales 421 class locomotive (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.