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Queensland Railways 1400 class
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Clyde Engineering· from 1955· class of 13 Australian A1A-A1A locomotives
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what is it?
The 1400 class was a class of diesel locomotive built by Clyde Engineering, Granville for Queensland Railways between 1955 and 1957.
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 71 years ago, in 1955.
- Weighs about as much as 13 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 14.6 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 33 years (1955–1988).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1955–1957
- in service from
- 1955
- retired
- 1988
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 13
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Clyde Engineering
- operators
- Queensland Rail
- top speed
- 80 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- A1A-A1A
- length
- 14.6 m
- weight
- 77.5 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
family
Sources: Wikidata Q16927403, Wikipedia: Queensland Railways 1400 class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.