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WAGR AI class
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Unknown builder· from 1935· former railcar in Western Australia
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. AI432, Marble Bar Railway: not identified· Public domain
what is it?
The WAGR AI class was a petrol-driven railmotor or railcar operated between 1935 and 1949 by the Western Australian Government Railways (WAGR). Officially designated as a petrol coach, it was built at the Midland Railway Workshops in 1935.
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 91 years ago, in 1935.
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1935
- in service from
- 1935
- number built
- 1
- kind
- multiple unit
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Unknown builder
- operators
- Western Australian Government Railways
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q24088456, Wikipedia: WAGR AI class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.