Monday, December 7, 2015

Queensland Railways 1400 class


If it looks like an NZR DA, that's pretty much what it was, with a less confined loading gauge profile. This was Clyde Engineering of Australia's version of the Electro-Motive Diesel G12 locomotive for the same cape gauge that NZ uses. However, unlike NZR which acquired 146 of them, QR only bought 13 which were built over 1955-1957. Two are preserved.

Here one is seen with the Sunlander (Brisbane-Cairns) in 1966.

Axle arrangement: A1A-A1A
Length: 14.59 metres (47 ft 10 inches)
Weight: 77.5 tonnes
Prime Mover: EMD 567C
Speed: 80 km/h
Road numbers: 1400-1412
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1 comment:

  1. Max HermanMarch 30, 2017 3:53 AM

    the equivalent to NZR Da is the 1400 class A1A-A1A; the 1450 Is a G12R, an early version of an all axle powered G12 & replaced in Qld by the 1460 G12C & 1502 G22C classes. The Da class G12A was built to Standard EMD plans apart from the handful obtained from Clyde. The cab is an option fro restricted loading gauge railways. in this series the standard model was the G12 Bo-Bo aka G12B of about 17 tons axle load; the option for an axle load of about 14-15 tons axle load was the G12A A1A-A1a, 1400 & Da classes

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