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WAGR ADF/ADU class
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Midland Railway Workshops· from 1949· class of Western Australian diesel railcars
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. ADF 490 + ADUs, on test, 1949: WAGR· Public domain
what is it?
The WAGR ADF class (also known as the Wildflower class) was a six member class of diesel-electric railcars operated by the Western Australian Government Railways between 1949 and 1975.
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 77 years ago, in 1949.
- Weighs about as much as 8 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 50.3 m long: about 11 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 26 years (1949–1975).
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1949
- in service from
- 1949
- retired
- 1975
- status
- retired
- number built
- 18
- kind
- Diesel railcar
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Midland Railway Workshops
- operators
- Western Australian Government Railways
- top speed
- —
- power
- 156 kW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- formation
- ADF + 2x ADU, Later ADF + 4x ADU + ADF for Bunbury Belle and The Shopper
- length
- 50.3 m
- weight
- 50.8 t
- capacity
- 64 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q16927531, Wikipedia: WAGR ADF/ADU class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.