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Queensland Railways 3300/3400 class
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Clyde Engineering· from 1994· class of 22 Australian electric locomotives
what is it?
The 3300/3400 class are a class of electric locomotives built by Clyde Engineering, Kelso and Somerton for Queensland Rail in 1994–1995.
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 32 years ago, in 1994.
- Weighs about as much as 19 African elephants (~6 t each).
electric locomotive: Draws power from overhead wires or a third rail and pulls separate carriages.
spec sheet
- built
- 1994–1995
- in service from
- 1994
- number built
- 22
- kind
- Electric
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Clyde Engineering
- operators
- Queensland Rail
- top speed
- 80 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- electric system
- 25 kV AC
- wheel arrangement
- Bo-Bo-Bo
- weight
- 113 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q16927432, Wikipedia: Queensland Railways 3300/3400 class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.