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Queensland Railways 1170 class
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Walkers Limited· from 1955· class of 12 Australian (A1A)(A1A) diesel locomotives
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- 1. 1170 - Redbank - 17 August 1988: Luke Cossins at English Wikipedia· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The 1170 class were a class of diesel locomotive built by Walkers Limited, Maryborough for Queensland Railways between 1956 and 1958.
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 71 years ago, in 1955.
- 477 kW is about 6 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 10 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 12.7 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 33 years (1956–1989).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1955–1958
- in service from
- 1956
- retired
- 1989
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 12
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Walkers Limited
- operators
- Queensland Rail
- top speed
- 80 km/h
- power
- 477 kW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- A1A-A1A
- length
- 12.7 m
- weight
- 60 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7270984, Wikipedia: Queensland Railways 1170 class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.