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Victorian Railways Y class (diesel)
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Clyde Engineering· from 1963· class of 75 Australian diesel-electric locomotives
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Y129 VLine: Alex1991· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. 20180111-IMG 7542: Max Thum· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Y class are a class of diesel locomotives built by Clyde Engineering, Granville for the Victorian Railways between 1963 and 1968.
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 63 years ago, in 1963.
- 480 kW is about 6 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 11 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 13.3 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- Still in service after 63 years.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1963–1968
- in service from
- 1963
- status
- in service
- number built
- 75
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Clyde Engineering
- operators
- Victorian Railways
- top speed
- 95 km/h
- power
- 480 kW
- gauge
- 1,600 mm Irish broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Bo-Bo
- length
- 13.3 m
- weight
- 65 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7927295, Wikipedia: Victorian Railways Y class (diesel) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.