#2952
BHP Port Kembla D1 class
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Commonwealth Engineering· from 1950· class of 8 Australian diesel locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. New South Wales Railway Museum 64: hugh llewelyn· CC BY-SA 2.0
what is it?
The D1 class were a class of diesel locomotives built by Commonwealth Engineering, Granville with English Electric traction equipment for Australian Iron & Steel's, Port Kembla steelworks in 1950–1951.
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 76 years ago, in 1950.
- 656 kW is about 8 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- 12.5 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 54 years (1950–2004).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1950–1951
- in service from
- 1950
- retired
- 2004
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 8
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Commonwealth Engineering
- operators
- Bluescope Lysaght
- top speed
- 34 km/h
- power
- 656 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Bo-Bo
- length
- 12.5 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q16926957, Wikipedia: BHP Port Kembla D1 class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.