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National Rail NR class
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by UGL Rail· from 1996· class of 120 Australian diesel-electric locomoitves
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. NR29 in Pacific National Livery: DBZ2313 ( talk )· CC BY 3.0
- 2. NZ & Aus Railways 31: XPinger (Chris Sutton)· CC BY-SA 2.0
what is it?
The NR class are Australian diesel-electric locomotives built by A Goninan & Co for National Rail between 1996 and 1998. They are currently operated by Pacific National. The C44aci model locomotives built by UGL Rail at Broadmeadow adopted the design from the NR Class.
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 30 years ago, in 1996.
- 3 MW is about 35 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 22 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 22 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
- Still in service after 30 years.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1996–1998
- in service from
- 1996
- status
- in service
- number built
- 120
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- UGL Rail
- operators
- National Rail Corporation, Pacific National
- top speed
- 115 km/h
- power
- 3 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co-Co
- length
- 22 m
- weight
- 132 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q6955219, Wikipedia: National Rail NR class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.