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Commonwealth Railways DR class
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Ruston & Hornsby· from 1953· class of 1 Australian diesel-mechanical locomotive
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- 1. RVRMa 0009: Shed Rat· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The DR class was a diesel locomotive built by Ruston & Hornsby for Shell in 1954. Shell used it at their Clyde Refinery before it was sold in 1964 to the Commonwealth Railways. It was withdrawn in 1975 and stored at Port Augusta until 1987 when it was sold to the Richmond Vale Railway Museum.
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 73 years ago, in 1953.
- Weighs about as much as 5 African elephants (~6 t each).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1953
- in service from
- 1953
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 1
- kind
- Diesel-mechanical
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Ruston & Hornsby
- operators
- Commonwealth Railways
- top speed
- 32 km/h
- power
- 112 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- length
- 7.8 m
- weight
- 28.4 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5206092, Wikipedia: Commonwealth Railways DR class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.