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NZR K class
🇳🇿 New Zealand ·built by New Zealand Railways Department· from 1932· class of 30 New Zealand 4-8-4 locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. K900: Hayden Booth· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The NZR K class of 1932 was a class of mixed traffic 4-8-4 steam locomotives built by the New Zealand Railways Department (NZR) that operated on New Zealand's railway network. The locomotives were developed following the failure of the G class Garratt locomotives. The class should not be confused with the much earlier K class of 1877-78, the first American-built engines to arrive in New Zealand.
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 94 years ago, in 1932.
- 21 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 35 years (1932–1967).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1932–1936
- in service from
- 1932
- retired
- 1967
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 30
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇳🇿 New Zealand
- builders
- New Zealand Railways Department, Hutt Workshops
- operators
- New Zealand Railways Department
- top speed
- 105 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 4-8-4
- length
- 21 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q6956217, Wikipedia: NZR K class (1932) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.