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Westrail DB class
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Clyde Engineering· from 1982· class of diesel-electric locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. DB1588 Forrestfield, 1986: Bahnfrend· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The Westrail DB Class is a class of diesel-electric locomotives built by Clyde Engineering, Rosewater, for Westrail in 1982–1983.
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 44 years ago, in 1982.
- 1.7 MW is about 20 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 18 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 18 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1982–1983
- number built
- 13
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Clyde Engineering
- operators
- Westrail
- top speed
- —
- power
- 1.7 MW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co-Co
- length
- 18 m
- weight
- 110 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7946422, Wikipedia: Westrail DB class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.