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Victorian Railways H class (diesel)
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Clyde Engineering· from 1968· class of 5 Australian diesel-electric hump shunting locomotives
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- 1. Victorian Railways H Class H1: Alex1991· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The H class are a class of diesel locomotives built by Clyde Engineering, Granville for the Victorian Railways in 1968–1969.
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 58 years ago, in 1968.
- 820 kW is about 10 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- 12.4 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- Still in service after 58 years.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1968–1969
- in service from
- 1968
- status
- in service
- number built
- 5
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Clyde Engineering
- operators
- Victorian Railways
- top speed
- 100 km/h
- power
- 820 kW
- gauge
- 1,600 mm Irish broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Bo-Bo
- length
- 12.4 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7927272, Wikipedia: Victorian Railways H class (diesel) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.