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BHP Port Kembla D16 class
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by English Electric· from 1959· class of 12 Australian diesel locomotives
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- 1. 1965 PORT KEMBLA (3570060668): lindsaybridge from Sydney, Australia· CC BY 2.0
what is it?
The D16 class are a class of diesel locomotives built by English Electric, Rocklea for Australian Iron & Steel's, Port Kembla steelworks between 1959 and 1964.
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 67 years ago, in 1959.
- 589 kW is about 7 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 16 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 12.5 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1959
- in service from
- 1959
- status
- retired
- number built
- 12
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- English Electric
- operators
- Bluescope Lysaght
- top speed
- —
- power
- 589 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Bo-Bo
- length
- 12.5 m
- weight
- 93 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q16926962, Wikipedia: BHP Port Kembla D16 class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.