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New Zealand DQ and QR class locomotives
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Clyde Engineering· from 1964· Class of diesel locomotives
what is it?
The DQ and QR class were a class of diesel locomotives in New Zealand and Tasmania, Australia. Originally built by Clyde Engineering in the 1960s as Queensland Rail 1460 and 1502 class locomotives, they were purchased by Tranz Rail in 1995 to be rebuilt, as a cheaper alternative to buying new locomotives.
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 62 years ago, in 1964.
- 1.1 MW is about 13 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 15 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 16.3 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 19 years (1996–2015).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1964–1969
- in service from
- 1996
- retired
- 2015
- status
- in service
- number built
- 25
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Clyde Engineering
- operators
- Tranz Rail, TasRail
- top speed
- 80 km/h
- power
- 1.1 MW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co-Co
- length
- 16.3 m
- weight
- 92 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7015309, Wikipedia: New Zealand DQ and QR class locomotives (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.