#4000
BHP Port Kembla D34 class
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by English Electric· from 1969· class of 1 Australian diesel locomotive
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. AIS loco C04 CT 576: Rob Russell· CC BY 2.0
what is it?
D34 was a diesel locomotive built by English Electric, Rocklea for Australian Iron & Steel's, Port Kembla steelworks in 1969.
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 57 years ago, in 1969.
- 1.5 MW is about 18 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- 16.5 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
- 1969
- in service from
- 1969
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 1
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- English Electric
- operators
- Bluescope Lysaght
- top speed
- 48 km/h
- power
- 1.5 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co-Co
- length
- 16.5 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q16926967, Wikipedia: BHP Port Kembla D34 class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.