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Queensland Railways 1450 class
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Clyde Engineering· from 1957· class of 10 Australian Co′Co′ diesel-electric locomotives
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what is it?
The 1450 class was a class of diesel locomotive built by Clyde Engineering, Granville for Queensland Railways in 1957–1958.
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 69 years ago, in 1957.
- Weighs about as much as 15 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 16.1 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 31 years (1957–1988).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1957–1958
- in service from
- 1957
- retired
- 1988
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 10
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Clyde Engineering
- operators
- Queensland Rail
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co-Co
- length
- 16.1 m
- weight
- 91.8 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
family
Sources: Wikidata Q16927404, Wikipedia: Queensland Railways 1450 class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.