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Commonwealth Railways NDH class railcar
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company· from 1954
what is it?
The NDH class railcars are a class of self propelled diesel-hydraulic railcars designed by Commonwealth Engineering and built by the Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Company in England for the Commonwealth Railways, Australia in 1954. They were known as Gloucester railcars. Commonwealth Railways placed an order for six NDH railcars with Commonwealth Engineering in 1952.
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 72 years ago, in 1954.
- Weighs about as much as 6 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 19.1 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1954
- in service from
- 1954
- number built
- 6
- kind
- multiple unit
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company
- operators
- Commonwealth Railways
- top speed
- 80 km/h
- power
- 105 kW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- length
- 19.1 m
- weight
- 36.7 t
- capacity
- 50 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q28428292, Wikipedia: Commonwealth Railways NDH class railcar (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.