#6385
New Zealand UD class wagon
🇳🇿 New Zealand ·built by Hillside Engineering· Type of Bogie Well Wagon
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Ud 1504 in Waipara: TrainboyMBH· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The New Zealand UD class wagon is a type of bogie well-wagon. Five were built, with four surviving in preservation.
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
- Weighs about as much as 4 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 12.3 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
carriage / wagon: Unpowered passenger coaches or freight wagons, pulled by a locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- —
- number built
- 5
- kind
- carriage / wagon
- origin
- 🇳🇿 New Zealand
- builders
- Hillside Engineering, Hutt Workshops, Hillside Railway Workshops, Otahuhu Workshops
- operators
- New Zealand Railways Department
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- length
- 12.3 m
- weight
- 26 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q48854765, Wikipedia: New Zealand UD class wagon (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.