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Queensland DD17 class locomotive
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by North Ipswich Railway Workshops· from 1948· class of 12 Australian 4-6-4T locomotives
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9 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. StateLibQld 1 73719 DD17 949 locomotive built in Ipswich between 1948 and 1952: Wikimedia Commons· Public domain
- 2. DD17 1051 Workshops Rail Museum: Dbromage· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3. DD17 949 locomotive built in Ipswich between 1948 and 1952 (4762706774): State Library of Queensland, Australia· No restrictions
- 4. QR Class DD17 'Thomas' steam locomotive No. 1049: Lundgren at English Wikipedia· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 5. Blue Mountains IMG 4246 DD17 1049: BeauGiles· CC BY 2.0
- 6. Clarence at peak hour - March 2009: Ian Sutton· CC BY 2.0
- 7. Locomotive 1049 at Zigzag railway: Maksym Kozlenko· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 8. Zig Zag railway - panoramio (11): Maksym Kozlenko· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 9. Zig Zag railway - panoramio (12): Maksym Kozlenko· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The Queensland Railways DD17 class locomotive is a class of 4-6-4T steam locomotives operated by the Queensland Railways. It is an improved version of the earlier Queensland D17 locomotive.
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 78 years ago, in 1948.
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1948–1952
- in service from
- 1948
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 12
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- North Ipswich Railway Workshops
- designer
- Cyril Renton
- operators
- Queensland Rail
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 4-6-4
- nicknames
- Blue Baby
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7270933, Wikipedia: Queensland DD17 class locomotive (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.