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WAGR RA class
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by English Electric· from 1968· Australian diesel electric locomotives
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- 1. Hugh llewelyn RA 1918 (5680395743): Hugh Llewelyn· CC BY-SA 2.0
what is it?
The RA Class are diesel locomotives built by English Electric, Rocklea for the Western Australian Government Railways between 1969 and 1972. They were a revised version of the R 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 58 years ago, in 1968.
- 1.5 MW is about 17 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- 16.2 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
- 1968
- in service from
- 1969
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 13
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- English Electric
- operators
- Western Australian Government Railways
- top speed
- 97 km/h
- power
- 1.5 MW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co-Co
- length
- 16.2 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q96414134, Wikipedia: WAGR RA class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.