#3436
MRWA F class
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by English Electric· from 1958· class of 7 Australian diesel-electric locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. F45 Picton Yard, 1986: Bahnfrend· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The F class were a class of diesel locomotives built by English Electric, Rocklea for the Midland Railway of Western Australia in 1958. They were later taken over by the Western Australian Government Railways.
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 68 years ago, in 1958.
- 559 kW is about 7 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- 12.8 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
- 1958
- in service from
- 1958
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 7
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- English Electric
- operators
- Midland Railway of Western Australia
- top speed
- 80 km/h
- power
- 559 kW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- (A1A)(A1A)
- length
- 12.8 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q6717632, Wikipedia: MRWA F class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.