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Australian National EL class
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by UGL Rail· from 1990· class of diesel locomotives
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. CFCLA-EL-classes: Marcus Wong Wongm· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. EL51 - EL63 Chidda 28-12-21: Redhen334· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The EL class locomotives are a class of diesel locomotives built by A Goninan & Co, Broadmeadow for Australian National in 1990–1991.
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 36 years ago, in 1990.
- Top speed is 1.1× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- 2.5 MW is about 29 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 19 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 20.5 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 36 years (1990–2026).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1990–1991
- in service from
- 1990
- retired
- 2026
- status
- retired
- number built
- 14
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- UGL Rail
- operators
- Rail First Asset Management, Australian National Railways Commission
- top speed
- 140 km/h
- power
- 2.5 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co-Co
- length
- 20.5 m
- weight
- 114 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q4824462, Wikipedia: Australian National EL class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.