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SX carriages
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Commonwealth Engineering· from 1961· Australian type of railway carriage
🚃 carriage / wagon ✓ in service
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. SX 38 Ipswich: Reef Thomspon· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The SX carriages were a type of passenger carriages constructed by Commonwealth Engineering for the Queensland Railways in 1961–1962.
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 65 years ago, in 1961.
- Weighs about as much as 4 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 17.6 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Still in service after 65 years.
carriage / wagon: Unpowered passenger coaches or freight wagons, pulled by a locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1961
- in service from
- 1961
- status
- in service
- number built
- —
- kind
- carriage / wagon
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Commonwealth Engineering
- operators
- Queensland Rail, Auckland Transport
- top speed
- 80 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- length
- 17.6 m
- weight
- 23 t
- capacity
- 87 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q16927218, Wikipedia: SX carriages (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.