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Victorian Railways M class (diesel-hydraulic)
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Victorian Railways· from 1959· class of 2 Australian diesel-hydraulic locomotives
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. UP U30C 2827: Wikimedia Commons· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. Victorian Railways M class: Budgiechook· CC0
what is it?
The Victorian Railways M class are a diesel-hydraulic powered railway shunting locomotive, constructed at Newport workshops of the Victorian Railways in Victoria, Australia and used between 1959 and 1987.
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 67 years ago, in 1959.
- Weighs about as much as 5 African elephants (~6 t each).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1959
- in service from
- 1959
- number built
- 2
- kind
- Diesel-hydraulic
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Victorian Railways
- operators
- Victorian Railways
- top speed
- 20 km/h
- power
- 112 kW
- wheel arrangement
- 0-6-0
- length
- 8.5 m
- weight
- 31 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7927278, Wikipedia: Victorian Railways M class (diesel-hydraulic) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.