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Westrail S class
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Clyde Engineering· from 1998· class of 11 Australian diesel locomotives
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- 1. S2106 Full Westrail Yellow: DBZ2313 at en.wikipedia· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The S class are a class of diesel locomotives built by Clyde Engineering, Forrestfield for Westrail in 1998.
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 28 years ago, in 1998.
- 2.2 MW is about 26 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- 20.8 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
- Still in service after 28 years.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1998
- in service from
- 1998
- status
- in service
- number built
- 11
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Clyde Engineering
- operators
- Western Australian Government Railways, Westrail
- top speed
- 115 km/h
- power
- 2.2 MW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co-Co
- length
- 20.8 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7946445, Wikipedia: Westrail S class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.