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Victorian Railways B class (diesel)
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Clyde Engineering· from 1952· class of 26 Australian diesel-electric locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Spirit-of-progress-70th-anniversary-2007: Marcus Wong Wongm· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The B class are a class of diesel locomotives built by Clyde Engineering, Granville for the Victorian Railways in 1952–1953. Ordered and operated by the Victorian Railways, they initiated the dieselisation of the system and saw use on both passenger and freight services, with many remaining in service today, both in preserved and revenue service. Some were rebuilt as the V/Line A class, while others have been scrapped.
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 74 years ago, in 1952.
- 1.1 MW is about 13 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 19 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 18.7 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Still in service after 74 years.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1952–1953
- in service from
- 1952
- status
- in service
- number built
- 26
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Clyde Engineering
- operators
- Victorian Railways
- top speed
- 133 km/h
- power
- 1.1 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co-Co
- length
- 18.7 m
- weight
- 114 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q14886711, Wikipedia: Victorian Railways B class (diesel) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.