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New South Wales 40 class locomotive
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Montreal Locomotive Works· from 1951· class of 20 Australian diesel locomotives based on the Alco RSC-3
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what is it?
The 40 class are a class of diesel locomotives built by Montreal Locomotive Works, Canada for the New South Wales Department of Railways in 1951/52.
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 75 years ago, in 1951.
- 1.3 MW is about 15 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 19 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 15.9 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 28 years (1951–1979).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1951
- in service from
- 1951
- retired
- 1979
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 20
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Montreal Locomotive Works
- operators
- Department of Railways New South Wales, New South Wales Government Railways, Hamersley & Robe River railway
- top speed
- 121 km/h
- power
- 1.3 MW
- wheel arrangement
- (A1A)(A1A)
- length
- 15.9 m
- weight
- 113 t
- nicknames
- Submarines
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q16927342, Wikipedia: New South Wales 40 class locomotive (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.