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Commonwealth Railways NT class
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Tulloch Limited· from 1965· railway engineering
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Commonwealth Railways NT class locomotives NT67 and NT76 at Wirrabara, South Australia, loading bulk wheat train: Sulzer55 ( talk )· CC BY 3.0
what is it?
The NT class were a class of diesel-electric locomotives built between 1965 and 1968 by Tulloch Limited, Rhodes for the Commonwealth Railways. They saw service on the Central Australia Railway and North Australia Railway, and on the Port Lincoln Division of Australian National.
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 61 years ago, in 1965.
- 970 kW is about 11 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 12 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 15.5 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 15 years (1965–1980).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1965–1968
- in service from
- 1965
- retired
- 1980
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 13
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Tulloch Limited
- operators
- Commonwealth Railways
- top speed
- 80 km/h
- power
- 970 kW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co-Co
- length
- 15.5 m
- weight
- 70 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5153842, Wikipedia: Commonwealth Railways NT class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.