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Queensland Railways 1300 class
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by English Electric· from 1967· class of 45 Australian Co′Co′ diesel-electric locomotives
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what is it?
The 1300 class were a class of diesel locomotive built by English Electric, Rocklea for Queensland Railways between 1967 and 1972. They were later sold to AN Tasrail.
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 59 years ago, in 1967.
- 1.5 MW is about 17 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- 14.6 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
- 1967–1972
- in service from
- 1967
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 45
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- English Electric
- operators
- Queensland Rail, AN Tasrail
- top speed
- 80 km/h
- power
- 1.5 MW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- length
- 14.6 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7270989, Wikipedia: Queensland Railways 1300 class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.