#4140
New South Wales 660/760 class railcar
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by New South Wales Government Railways· from 1972
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Power car 661 at Byron Beach station: Perpetual-yearning· CC BY 4.0
what is it?
The 660 and 760 class railcars are a class of diesel multiple unit train built by the New South Wales Government Railways (NSWGR) and used in the latter stages of their life by CityRail, primarily on its Hunter Valley line. The trains have since been phased out in favour of the newer Endeavour railcar model. The 660/760 railcars were converted by NSWGR from earlier 600/700 Class vehicles between 1973 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 54 years ago, in 1972.
- 500 kW is about 6 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- 18.7 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
- 1972
- in service from
- 1972
- number built
- 10
- kind
- Diesel multiple unit
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- New South Wales Government Railways
- operators
- CityRail
- top speed
- 115 km/h
- power
- 500 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- length
- 18.7 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q16926845, Wikipedia: New South Wales 660/760 class railcar (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.