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Queensland Railways 2600 class
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by UGL Rail· from 1983· class of 13 Australian diesel-electric locomotives
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what is it?
The 2600 class were a class of diesel locomotive built by A Goninan & Co, Townsville for Queensland Rail in 1983–1984.
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 43 years ago, in 1983.
- 1.6 MW is about 19 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 16 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 18.9 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1983–1984
- in service from
- 1983
- number built
- 13
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- UGL Rail
- operators
- Queensland Rail
- top speed
- 80 km/h
- power
- 1.6 MW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co-Co
- length
- 18.9 m
- weight
- 97.6 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q16927429, Wikipedia: Queensland Railways 2600 class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.