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New South Wales D58 class locomotive
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Eveleigh Railway Workshops· from 1950· class of 13 Australian three-cylinder 4-8-2 locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. NSWGR Class D58 Locomotive: NSWGR Archives· Public domain
what is it?
The D58 class was a class of steam locomotives built by the New South Wales Government Railways in Australia. They were built with the 4-8-2 wheel arrangement.
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 76 years ago, in 1950.
- Weighs about as much as 24 African elephants (~6 t each).
- Served for 7 years (1950–1957).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1950–1952
- in service from
- 1950
- retired
- 1957
- status
- retired
- number built
- 13
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Eveleigh Railway Workshops, Cardiff locomotive workshops
- operators
- New South Wales Government Railways
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- wheel arrangement
- 4-8-2
- weight
- 141 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7011703, Wikipedia: New South Wales D58 class locomotive (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.