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New South Wales D53 class locomotive
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Clyde Engineering· from 1912· class of 190 Australian 2-8-0 locomotives
3 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. 200th steam locomotive built by Clyde TF 1164 from The Powerhouse Museum: Clyde works in Granville, NSW· Public domain
- 2. New South Wales D53 Class No. 5461 and 46 Class No. 4601 locomotives at the Valley Heights Depot Museum - October 2014: nzsteam· CC BY 2.0
- 3. New South Wales D53 Class No. 5461 locomotive at the Valley Heights Depot Museum - October 2014: nzsteam· CC BY 2.0
what is it?
The D53 class is a class of 2-8-0 steam locomotives built for the New South Wales Government Railways of Australia.
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 114 years ago, in 1912.
- Weighs about as much as 12 African elephants (~6 t each).
- Served for 61 years (1912–1973).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1912–1917
- in service from
- 1912
- retired
- 1973
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 190
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Clyde Engineering, Eveleigh Railway Workshops
- operators
- New South Wales Government Railways
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- wheel arrangement
- 2-8-0
- weight
- 72 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7011696, Wikipedia: New South Wales D53 class locomotive (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.