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Queensland Railways 1600 class
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by English Electric· from 1962· class of 18 Australian Co′Co′ diesel-electric locomotives
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. QR 1614 English Diesel Electric, Archer Park Rail Museum, 2016 01: Kerry Raymond· CC BY 4.0
- 2. Dia 0186: Ellis678· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The 1600 class was a class of diesel locomotives built by English Electric, Rocklea for Queensland Railways between 1962 and 1964.
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 64 years ago, in 1962.
- 690 kW is about 8 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- 12.2 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 29 years (1962–1991).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1962–1964
- in service from
- 1962
- retired
- 1991
- status
- in service
- number built
- 18
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- English Electric
- operators
- Queensland Rail
- top speed
- 80 km/h
- power
- 690 kW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co-Co
- length
- 12.2 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q16927408, Wikipedia: Queensland Railways 1600 class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.