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InterCity Express (Queensland Rail)
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Walkers Limited· from 1988· class of electric train cars
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. ICE 155 south of North Gympie - 2 May 2010: Peregrin Took· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. ICE 158: Bearq07· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The InterCity Express (ICE) is a retired class of electric multiple unit manufactured by Walkers in Maryborough for Queensland Rail between 1988 and 1989. They were operated on the Spirit of Capricorn service until 2003 and the Sunshine Coast line service until 2021. They were retired from the Queensland Rail network in 2021.
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 38 years ago, in 1988.
- 2.2 MW is about 25 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 32 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 95.6 m long: about 21 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 222: 4 full city buses (~50 seats each).
- Served for 33 years (1988–2021).
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1988
- in service from
- 1988
- retired
- 2021
- status
- retired
- number built
- 20
- kind
- Electric multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Walkers Limited
- operators
- Queensland Rail
- top speed
- 120 km/h
- power
- 2.2 MW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- electric system
- (nominal) from overhead catenary
- formation
- 4–6 carriage sets
- length
- 95.6 m
- weight
- 194 t
- capacity
- 222 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q6044844, Wikipedia: InterCity Express (Queensland Rail) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.