#3803
WAGR H class (diesel)
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by English Electric· from 1964· diesel electric locomotives
what is it?
The H class are a class of diesel locomotives built by English Electric, Rocklea for the Western Australian Government Railways in 1964–1965.
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 62 years ago, in 1964.
- 708 kW is about 8 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- 13.7 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
- 1964–1965
- in service from
- 1965
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 5
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- English Electric
- operators
- Western Australian Government Railways
- top speed
- 105 km/h
- power
- 708 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Bo-Bo
- length
- 13.7 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7946430, Wikipedia: WAGR H class (diesel) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.