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Victorian Railways F class (diesel)
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Dick, Kerr & Co.· from 1951· class of 16 Australian 0-6-0de locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. VR F202 DSC01872: Brian Voon Yee Yap at en.wikipedia· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The F Class are a class of diesel-electric shunting locomotives built by Dick Kerr Works for the Victorian Railways (VR) between 1951 and 1953. They are similar to the British Rail Class 11 and NS Class 600 shunting locomotives also built by English Electric during this period, but modified for use on the VR's 1600 mm (5 ft 3 in) broad gauge network.
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 75 years ago, in 1951.
- 9.3 m long: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 36 years (1951–1987).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1951–1953
- in service from
- 1951
- retired
- 1987
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 16
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Dick, Kerr & Co., English Electric
- operators
- Victorian Railways, State Electricity Commission of Victoria
- top speed
- 32 km/h
- power
- 261 kW
- gauge
- 1,600 mm Irish broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- C
- length
- 9.3 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7927268, Wikipedia: Victorian Railways F class (diesel) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.