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what is it?
The Victorian Railways rail tractors are a fleet of small shunting units used by the Victorian Railways of Australia for moving railway wagons at country stations and in private sidings. Varying in power output and size, they generally consist of an agricultural tractor engine on top of a four-wheeled steel rail wagon frame, recycled from scrapped four-wheel goods wagons.
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.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1932
- in service from
- 1952
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 54
- kind
- Diesel-mechanical
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Newport Workshops
- designer
- Victorian Railways
- operators
- Victorian Railways
- top speed
- 32 km/h
- power
- 40 kW
- gauge
- 1,600 mm Irish broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 0-4-0
- weight
- 9.8 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7927308, Wikipedia: Victorian Railways rail tractor (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.