#3503
Queensland Railways 1250 class
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by English Electric· from 1959· class of 17 Australian Co′Co′ diesel-electric locomotives
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- 1. 1262 Workshops Rail Museum: Dbromage· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The 1250 class were a class of diesel locomotive built by English Electric, Rocklea for Queensland Railways between 1959 and 1963.
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.
- 1.1 MW is about 14 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- 14.9 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 28 years (1959–1987).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1959–1963
- in service from
- 1959
- retired
- 1987
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 17
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- English Electric
- operators
- Queensland Rail
- top speed
- 80 km/h
- power
- 1.1 MW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- length
- 14.9 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7270987, Wikipedia: Queensland Railways 1250 class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.