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Victorian Railways W class
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Tulloch Limited· from 1959· class of 27 Australian 0-6-0dh locomotives
4 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. El-zorro-works-train: Marcus Wong Wongm· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. Victorian Railways W Class Locomotive No. 243 at the Newport Railway Museum - May 2017 - 01: nzsteam· CC BY 2.0
- 3. Victorian Railways W Class Locomotive No. 243 at the Newport Railway Museum - May 2017 - 02: nzsteam· CC BY 2.0
- 4. Victorian Railways W Class Locomotive No. 255 at the Newport Railway Museum - May 2017: nzsteam· CC BY 2.0
what is it?
The W class are a diesel-hydraulic shunting locomotive ordered and operated by the Victorian Railways of Australia. One briefly operated as the 71 class of the New South Wales Department of Railways.
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 67 years ago, in 1959.
- 485 kW is about 6 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 8 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 9.3 m long: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1959–1961
- in service from
- 1959
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 27
- kind
- Diesel-hydraulic
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Tulloch Limited
- operators
- Victorian Railways, Department of Railways New South Wales
- top speed
- 32 km/h
- power
- 485 kW
- gauge
- 1,600 mm Irish broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 0-6-0
- length
- 9.3 m
- weight
- 49 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7927291, Wikipedia: Victorian Railways W class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.