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New South Wales 47 class locomotive
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by UGL Rail· from 1972· class of diesel-electric locomotives
what is it?
The 47 class are a class of diesel-electric locomotives built by A Goninan & Co for the Public Transport Commission in 1972–1973.
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 54 years ago, in 1972.
- 840 kW is about 10 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 14 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 14 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 1 years (1972–1973).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1972–1973
- in service from
- 1972
- retired
- 1973
- status
- in service
- number built
- 20
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- UGL Rail
- operators
- New South Wales Public Transport Commission
- top speed
- 113 km/h
- power
- 840 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co-Co
- length
- 14 m
- weight
- 85.3 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q12063889, Wikipedia: New South Wales 47 class locomotive (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.