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Queensland Railways 2370 class
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by English Electric· from 1975· class of 4 Australian Co′Co′ diesel-electric locomotives
what is it?
The 2370 class were a class of diesel locomotive built in 1975 by English Electric, Rocklea for Queensland Railways in Australia. All were later sold to AN Tasrail along with the 2350 class, and reclassified as the ZB class.
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 51 years ago, in 1975.
- 1.9 MW is about 22 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- 15.9 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1975
- in service from
- 1973
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 4
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- English Electric
- operators
- Queensland Rail, AN Tasrail, Greentrains
- top speed
- 80 km/h
- power
- 1.9 MW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co-Co
- length
- 15.9 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q16927425, Wikipedia: Queensland Railways 2370 class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.