#3307
New South Wales 43 class locomotive
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by UGL Rail· from 1956· class of 6 Australian diesel-electric locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. 4306 the sole surviving 43 class diesel locomotive: Chester H. Winnfield· CC BY 4.0
what is it?
The 43 class are a class of Australian diesel locomotives built by A Goninan & Co, Broadmeadow for the New South Wales Department of Railways in 1956–1957.
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 70 years ago, in 1956.
- 1.3 MW is about 15 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 18 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 16.2 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 23 years (1956–1979).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1956–1957
- in service from
- 1956
- retired
- 1979
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 6
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- UGL Rail
- operators
- Department of Railways New South Wales, New South Wales Government Railways
- top speed
- 114 km/h
- power
- 1.3 MW
- wheel arrangement
- Co-Co
- length
- 16.2 m
- weight
- 107 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7011612, Wikipedia: New South Wales 43 class locomotive (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.