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Queensland Railways 2300 class
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Redbank Railway Workshops· from 1997· class of 60 Australian diesel-electric locomotives rebuilt form four other classes
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- 1. 2303 - Redbank - 2000: No machine-readable author provided. Peregrin Took assumed (based on copyright claims).· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The 2300 class is a class of diesel locomotives rebuilt by Queensland Rail's Redbank Railway Workshops between 1997 and 2002.
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 29 years ago, in 1997.
- 1.7 MW is about 20 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 16 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 18 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 5 years (1997–2002).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1997–2002
- in service from
- 1997
- retired
- 2002
- status
- in service
- number built
- 60
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Redbank Railway Workshops
- operators
- Queensland Rail
- top speed
- —
- power
- 1.7 MW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co-Co
- length
- 18 m
- weight
- 94.5 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q16927423, Wikipedia: Queensland Railways 2300 class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.