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Queensland Railways 1900 class rail motor
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Commonwealth Engineering· from 1957
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. RM 1901 waits under looming skies at Texas station, Queensland, ~1991: Ellis678· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The 1900 class railcars are a class of self-propelled railcars built by Commonwealth Engineering, Granville for the Queensland Railways in 1956.
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 69 years ago, in 1957.
- 16.8 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 31 years (1957–1988).
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1957
- in service from
- 1957
- retired
- 1988
- status
- retired
- number built
- 2
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Commonwealth Engineering
- operators
- Queensland Rail
- top speed
- 80 km/h
- power
- 186 kW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- length
- 16.8 m
- capacity
- 58 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q16927414, Wikipedia: Queensland Railways 1900 class rail motor (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.