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NZR U class
🇳🇿 New Zealand ·built by New Zealand Railways Department· from 1894· class of 9 New Zealand 4-6-0 locomotives
what is it?
The NZR U class, the first tender locomotives built in New Zealand, were a class of 4-6-0 Ten Wheeler locomotive designed to the requirements of Mr T. F. Rotherham and built at NZR Addington between 1894 and 1903. They were amongst NZRs' longest lived tender engines.
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 132 years ago, in 1894.
- 14.9 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 65 years (1894–1959).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1894–1903
- in service from
- 1894
- retired
- 1959
- status
- retired
- number built
- 9
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇳🇿 New Zealand
- builders
- New Zealand Railways Department, Addington Railway Workshops
- operators
- New Zealand Railways Department
- top speed
- 80 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 4-6-0
- length
- 14.9 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q16927133, Wikipedia: NZR U class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.