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New South Wales 73 class locomotive
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Walkers Limited· from 1970· 1970–73 Australian diesel-hydraulic class
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Diesel locomotive 7321 at Oberon: Maksym Kozlenko· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The 73 class is an Australian diesel-hydraulic locomotive built by Walkers Limited, Maryborough for the New South Wales Department of Railways between 1970 and 1973.
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 56 years ago, in 1970.
- 522 kW is about 6 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 8 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 11 m long: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
- Still in service after 56 years.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1970–1973
- in service from
- 1970
- status
- in service
- number built
- 50
- kind
- Diesel-hydraulic
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Walkers Limited
- operators
- Department of Railways New South Wales, New South Wales Government Railways
- top speed
- 64 km/h
- power
- 522 kW
- wheel arrangement
- B'B'
- length
- 11 m
- weight
- 49.8 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7011639, Wikipedia: New South Wales 73 class locomotive (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.