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New Zealand DI class locomotive
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by English Electric· from 1966· class of 5 New Zealand diesel-electric locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Di 1102 at Waipara: TrainboyMBH· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The New Zealand DI class locomotive was a class of diesel-electric locomotive in New Zealand. They were built by English Electric at their plant in Rocklea, Queensland in Australia. The class is very similar to the Queensland Railways 1620 class locomotives.
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 60 years ago, in 1966.
- 755 kW is about 9 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- 12.8 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 23 years (1966–1989).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1966
- in service from
- 1966
- retired
- 1989
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 5
- kind
- Diesel-Electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- English Electric
- operators
- New Zealand Railways Corporation, New Zealand Railways Department
- top speed
- 97 km/h
- power
- 755 kW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co-Co
- length
- 12.8 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q16926783, Wikipedia: New Zealand DI class locomotive (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.