#3948
WAGR T class (diesel)
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Tulloch Limited· from 1967· class of 15 Australian 0-6-0de locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. TA1814 Albany, 1986: Bahnfrend· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The T class was a class of diesel locomotives built by Tulloch Limited, Rhodes for the Western Australian Government Railways between 1967 and 1970.
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 59 years ago, in 1967.
- 485 kW is about 6 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Still in service after 59 years.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1967–1970
- in service from
- 1967
- status
- in service
- number built
- 15
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Tulloch Limited
- operators
- Western Australian Government Railways
- top speed
- 64 km/h
- power
- 485 kW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- C
- length
- 7.6 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7946447, Wikipedia: WAGR T class (diesel) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.