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Queensland Railways 1200 class
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by English Electric· from 1953· class of 10 Australian Co′Co′ diesel-electric locomotives
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. 1225 in 2006 before being sold by ARHS in 2007 to privet owner.: Qrmodeler· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. Brisbane suburban train between Graceville and Chelmer, c 1961: Queensland State Archives· PDM-owner
what is it?
The 1200 class were a class of diesel locomotive built by English Electric, Bradford for Queensland Railways in 1953–1954.
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 73 years ago, in 1953.
- 962 kW is about 11 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 15 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 16.5 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 31 years (1953–1984).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1953–1954
- in service from
- 1953
- retired
- 1984
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 10
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- English Electric, Vulcan Foundry
- operators
- Queensland Rail
- top speed
- 80 km/h
- power
- 962 kW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- length
- 16.5 m
- weight
- 88 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7270985, Wikipedia: Queensland Railways 1200 class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.