#4953
New South Wales 82 class locomotive
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Clyde Engineering· from 1994· Class of diesel locomotives
3 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Goods train - panoramio: Maksym Kozlenko· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. Pacific National Class 82 general purpose 3,252hp Co-Co No.8205: hugh llewelyn· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 3. Pacific National Class 82 general purpose 3,252hp Co-Co No.8206 - 43920070300: hugh llewelyn· CC BY-SA 2.0
what is it?
The 82 class is a class of diesel locomotives built by Clyde Engineering, Braemar for The New South Wales State Rail Authority's FreightRail division (FreightCorp from 1996) in 1994–1995. The sale of FreightCorp and its assets along with National Rail in 2002 saw ownership of all 55 remaining 82 class locomotives (three units had already been destroyed in a major collision at Beresfield train station in 1997) transferred to the newly formed Pacific National and patched over with its logos. As of October 2024, all but one of these locomotives remains in active service with Pacific National, one having been scrapped in 2016 after sustaining significant fire damage.
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 32 years ago, in 1994.
- 2.3 MW is about 27 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 1 years (1994–1995).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1994–1995
- in service from
- 1994
- retired
- 1995
- status
- in service
- number built
- 58
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Clyde Engineering
- operators
- Pacific National, FreightCorp
- top speed
- 121 km/h
- power
- 2.3 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co-Co
- length
- 22 m
- weight
- 132 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7011648, Wikipedia: New South Wales 82 class locomotive (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.