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Westrail N class
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Commonwealth Engineering· from 1977· class of 11 Australian diesel-electric locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. N1879+N1871 Bunbury, 1986: Bahnfrend· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The N class was a class of diesel locomotives built by Comeng, Bassendean for Westrail between 1977 and 1979.
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 49 years ago, in 1977.
- 1.8 MW is about 21 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 18 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 17.1 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1977–1979
- in service from
- 1977
- status
- retired
- number built
- 11
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Commonwealth Engineering
- operators
- Western Australian Government Railways, Westrail
- top speed
- 105 km/h
- power
- 1.8 MW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co-Co
- length
- 17.1 m
- weight
- 106 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7946439, Wikipedia: Westrail N class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.