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Queensland Railways 1550 class
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Clyde Engineering· from 1972· class of 27 Australian Co′Co′ diesel-electric locomotives
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what is it?
The 1550 class was a class of diesel locomotives built by Clyde Engineering, Eagle Farm for Queensland Railways between 1972 and 1976.
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 54 years ago, in 1972.
- 1.1 MW is about 13 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 15 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 18 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 32 years (1972–2004).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1972–1976
- in service from
- 1972
- retired
- 2004
- status
- in service
- number built
- 27
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Clyde Engineering
- operators
- Queensland Rail
- top speed
- —
- power
- 1.1 MW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co-Co
- length
- 18 m
- weight
- 91.8 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q16927407, Wikipedia: Queensland Railways 1550 class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.