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New South Wales 85 class locomotive
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Commonwealth Engineering· from 1979
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what is it?
The 85 class are a type of 10 electric locomotives built by Comeng, Granville between May 1979 and July 1980 for the Public Transport Commission.
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 47 years ago, in 1979.
- 2.9 MW is about 34 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 21 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 17.7 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 19 years (1979–1998).
electric locomotive: Draws power from overhead wires or a third rail and pulls separate carriages.
spec sheet
- built
- 1979–1980
- in service from
- 1979
- retired
- 1998
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 10
- kind
- Electric
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Commonwealth Engineering
- operators
- New South Wales Public Transport Commission, State Rail Authority of New South Wales, FreightCorp
- top speed
- 130 km/h
- power
- 2.9 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- electric system
- Overhead
- wheel arrangement
- Co′Co′
- length
- 17.7 m
- weight
- 123 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7011650, Wikipedia: New South Wales 85 class locomotive (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.