#4513
New South Wales 86 class locomotive
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Commonwealth Engineering· from 1983· class of electric locomotives
3 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. 86 Class electric locomotive 8646: Maksym Kozlenko· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. 8620 in 1983: Rob Russell· CC BY 2.0
- 3. 86 class in its SRA Candy Livery: Canbandude· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The 86 class is a class of electric locomotives built by Comeng, Granville for the State Rail Authority of New South Wales.
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 43 years ago, in 1983.
- 2.9 MW is about 34 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 20 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 18.7 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 19 years (1983–2002).
electric locomotive: Draws power from overhead wires or a third rail and pulls separate carriages.
spec sheet
- built
- 1983–1985
- in service from
- 1983
- retired
- 2002
- status
- in service
- number built
- 50
- kind
- Electric
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Commonwealth Engineering
- operators
- 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
- 8601-8649: Co′Co′
- length
- 18.7 m
- weight
- 119 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q12063890, Wikipedia: New South Wales 86 class locomotive (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.