NSW 43 class diesel

One of this 6-member class of Co-Co type built by A Goninan & Co, Broadmeadow in 1956-1957 is seen with a passenger train between Sydney and Newcastle in the late 1960s.

"These locomotives were unique in Australia in having Alco power units in GE Transportation Systems designed bodies, a legacy of the former Alco-GE partnership which was dissolved in 1953. Although their design originated in the United States, only two similar UM20 cab and two booster units were ever built in that country, for the Erie Railroad."

One of them, 4306, "returned to traffic in June 1996 and has since been used extensively on charters in New South Wales as well as interstate to Brisbane and Melbourne"

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