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New South Wales D57 class locomotive
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Clyde Engineering· from 1929· class of 25 Australian 4-8-2 locomotives
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7 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. NSWGR Class D57 Locomotive: NSWGR· Public domain
- 2. New South Wales D57 Class No. 5711 locomotive at the Valley Heights Depot Museum - October 2014 - 01: nzsteam· CC BY 2.0
- 3. New South Wales D57 Class No. 5711 locomotive at the Valley Heights Depot Museum - October 2014 - 02: nzsteam· CC BY 2.0
- 4. New South Wales D57 Class No. 5711 locomotive at the Valley Heights Depot Museum - October 2014 - 03: nzsteam· CC BY 2.0
- 5. New South Wales D57 Class No. 5711 locomotive at the Valley Heights Depot Museum - October 2014 - 04: nzsteam· CC BY 2.0
- 6. NSWGR Locomotive Class D57: NSWGR Archives· Public domain
- 7. Penrith, NSW - Coal stage & D57 locomotive, 1930s (AHRS Collection, ARHSBox046 1355): Unknown photographer. Image from the Australian Railway Historical Society collection courtesy of the University of Newcastle Library's Special Collections· Public domain
what is it?
The New South Wales D57 class is a class of 4-8-2 steam locomotives built for the New South Wales Government Railways in Australia by Clyde Engineering and by Mort's Dock & Engineering Company in respect of the tenders. When they entered service in 1929, they represented a revolution in locomotive design, having a tractive effort 67% higher than the previous most powerful New South Wales locomotive, the 55 class.
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 97 years ago, in 1929.
- Weighs about as much as 23 African elephants (~6 t each).
- Served for 32 years (1929–1961).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1929–1930
- in service from
- 1929
- retired
- 1961
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 25
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Clyde Engineering
- operators
- New South Wales Government Railways
- top speed
- 80 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 4-8-2
- weight
- 141 t
- nicknames
- Lazy Lizzies
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q16926655, Wikipedia: New South Wales D57 class locomotive (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.