#3564
New South Wales 49 class locomotive
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Clyde Engineering· from 1960· Australian locomotive class
3 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Locomotive 4916 Thirlmere: Bluedawe· CC0
- 2. Locomotive 4903 Sutherland 2026: SnowyRiver28· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. 49 Class Loco Cockatoo Run: Bluedawe· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The 49 class is a class of diesel locomotives built by Clyde Engineering, Granville for the New South Wales Department of Railways between 1960 and 1964.
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 66 years ago, in 1960.
- 708 kW is about 8 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 14 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 14 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 4 years (1960–1964).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1960–1964
- in service from
- 1960
- retired
- 1964
- status
- in service
- number built
- 18
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Clyde Engineering
- operators
- Department of Railways New South Wales, New South Wales Government Railways
- top speed
- 124 km/h
- power
- 708 kW
- wheel arrangement
- Co-Co
- length
- 14 m
- weight
- 81.3 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7011627, Wikipedia: New South Wales 49 class locomotive (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.