#0318
NZR D class
🇳🇿 New Zealand ·built by Dübs and Company· from 1874· class of 35 New Zealand 2-4-0T locomotives, built 1874–1890
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
what is it?
NZR D class steam tank locomotives operated on New Zealand's national railway network. The first entered service in 1874 all had been withdrawn by the end of 1927, which allowed the D classification to be used again in 1929.
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 152 years ago, in 1874.
- Weighs about as much as 2 African elephants (~6 t each).
- Served for 53 years (1874–1927).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1874–1890
- in service from
- 1874
- retired
- 1927
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 34
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇳🇿 New Zealand
- builders
- Dübs and Company, Neilson and Company, Scott Brothers
- operators
- New Zealand Ministry of Works, New Zealand Railways Department
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-4-0
- length
- 6.4 m
- weight
- 14.2 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q6956196, Wikipedia: NZR D class (1874) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.