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Queensland Rail ways DL class
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Queensland Rail· from 1939· class of 4 Australian 150 hp diesel locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. DL1 Workshops Rail Museum: Dbromage· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The DL class is a class of diesel locomotives built by Queensland Railways, Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns and Walkers Limited for Queensland Railways between 1939 and 1961.
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 87 years ago, in 1939.
- Weighs about as much as 3 African elephants (~6 t each).
- Still in service after 87 years.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1939
- in service from
- 1939
- status
- in service
- number built
- 4
- kind
- Diesel
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Queensland Rail, Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns, Walkers Limited, Drewry Car Co.
- operators
- Queensland Rail
- top speed
- 50 km/h
- power
- 112 kW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- length
- 7.2 m
- weight
- 18 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7270991, Wikipedia: Queensland Railways DL class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.