#3123
Queensland Railways steel carriage stock
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Commonwealth Engineering· from 1953
what is it?
The Queensland Railways ordered two different types of steel bodied air-conditioned carriage stock, both built by Commonwealth Engineering at their Rocklea plant. Over the years these carriages have been used on many different long distance Queensland Rail services. All Queensland Rail Travel (formerly "Traveltrain") services are now operated only with L Series carriages.
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 73 years ago, in 1953.
- Served for 61 years (1953–2014).
carriage / wagon: Unpowered passenger coaches or freight wagons, pulled by a locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1953
- in service from
- 1953
- retired
- 2014
- status
- retired
- number built
- 99
- kind
- carriage / wagon
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Commonwealth Engineering
- operators
- Queensland Rail
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q16927435, Wikipedia: Queensland Railways steel carriage stock (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.