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Queensland Railways 1620 class
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by English Electric· from 1967· class of 34 Australian Co′Co′ diesel-electric locomotives
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what is it?
The 1620 class was a class of diesel locomotives built by English Electric, Rocklea for Queensland Railways between 1967 and 1969. The 1620 class locomotives are similar to the New Zealand Railways DI class, also built at the Rocklea works.
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.
- 755 kW is about 9 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 11 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 13.8 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 23 years (1967–1990).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1967–1969
- in service from
- 1967
- retired
- 1990
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 34
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- English Electric
- operators
- Queensland Rail
- top speed
- 80 km/h
- power
- 755 kW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co-Co
- length
- 13.8 m
- weight
- 63 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q16927410, Wikipedia: Queensland Railways 1620 class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.