#3892
Queensland Railways DH class
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Walkers Limited· from 1966· class of 73 Australian diesel-hydraulic locomotives
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- 1. DH 8 - 280586 - Innisfail: Luke Cossins· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The DH class is a class of diesel-hydraulic locomotives built by Walkers Limited, Maryborough for Queensland Railways between 1966 and 1974.
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 60 years ago, in 1966.
- 347 kW is about 4 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 6 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 12.7 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1966–1974
- in service from
- 1966
- number built
- 73
- kind
- Diesel-hydraulic
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Walkers Limited
- operators
- Queensland Rail
- top speed
- 50 km/h
- power
- 347 kW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- B′B′
- length
- 12.7 m
- weight
- 37 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7270990, Wikipedia: Queensland Railways DH class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.