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Queensland Railways 2800 class
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by UGL Rail· from 1995· class of 50 Australian diesel-electric locomotives
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. QRNational-2800-class-diesel: Wongm· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. 2800 at Kunwarara: ACABACAB1312· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The 2800 class are a class of diesel locomotive built by A Goninan & Co, Townsville for Queensland Rail between 1995 and 1998. They are currently owned by Aurizon, and operate on the North Coast and Mount Isa lines.
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 31 years ago, in 1995.
- 2.4 MW is about 28 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 19 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 20.5 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 3 years (1995–1998).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1995–1998
- in service from
- 1995
- retired
- 1998
- status
- in service
- number built
- 50
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- UGL Rail
- operators
- Aurizon, Queensland Rail
- top speed
- 100 km/h
- power
- 2.4 MW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co-Co
- length
- 20.5 m
- weight
- 116 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q16927430, Wikipedia: Queensland Railways 2800 class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.