#3145
BHP Newcastle 32 class
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by UGL Rail· from 1954· Class of diesel locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. BHP 34: Shed Rat· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The BHP Newcastle 32 class were a class of diesel locomotives built by A Goninan & Co, Broadmeadow for the BHP, Newcastle Steelworks between 1954 and 1956.
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 72 years ago, in 1954.
- 468 kW is about 6 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- 11.6 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1954
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 5
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- UGL Rail
- operators
- BHP Group
- top speed
- —
- power
- 468 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Bo-Bo
- length
- 11.6 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q4835598, Wikipedia: BHP Newcastle 32 class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.