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WAGR Dm class
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Midland Railway Workshops· from 1945· class of 8 Australian 4-6-4T locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Dm314, 1945: R. Moss· Public domain
what is it?
The WAGR Dm class was a class of 4-6-4T tank locomotive operated by the Western Australian Government Railways (WAGR) between 1945 and 1971.
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 81 years ago, in 1945.
- Weighs about as much as 12 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 13.1 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1945
- status
- retired
- number built
- 8
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Midland Railway Workshops
- operators
- Western Australian Government Railways
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 4-6-4T
- length
- 13.1 m
- weight
- 72.1 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7946428, Wikipedia: WAGR Dm class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.