#5348
Transwa WDA/WDB/WDC class
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by UGL Rail· from 2004· railcars made in Australia
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2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Prospector new railcar, Toodyay: Nachoman-au· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. Prospector Merredin 2012 (cropped): WikiWookie· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The Transwa WDA/WDB/WDC and WEA/WEB classes are two classes of railcars built by United Goninan, Broadmeadow for Transwa in 2004–2005 to replace the WAGR WCA/WCE class railcars on the AvonLink, MerredinLink and Prospector services in Western Australia. The trains are capable of 200 km/h operation and run at 160 km/h in service.
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 22 years ago, in 2004.
- Top speed is 1.5× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 12 minutes.
- 386 kW is about 5 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 11 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 54.8 m long: about 12 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 100: 2 full city buses (~50 seats each).
- Served for 1 years (2004–2005).
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 2004
- in service from
- 2004
- retired
- 2005
- status
- retired
- number built
- 9
- kind
- Diesel-hydraulic multiple unit
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- UGL Rail
- operators
- Transwa
- top speed
- 200 km/h
- power
- 386 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- formation
- WDA–WDB, WDA–WDC–WDB, WEA–WEB
- length
- 54.8 m
- weight
- 68 t
- capacity
- 100 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q16927511, Wikipedia: Transwa WDA/WDB/WDC class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.