The 1450 class was a class of diesel locomotive built by
Clyde Engineering
Clyde Engineering was an Australian manufacturer of locomotives, rolling stock, and other industrial products.
It was founded in September 1898 by a syndicate of Sydney businessmen buying the Granville factory of timber merchants Huds ...
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Granville for
Queensland Rail
Queensland Rail (QR) is a railway operator in Queensland, Australia. Owned by the Queensland Government, it operates local and long-distance passenger services, as well as owning and maintaining approximately 6,600 kilometres of track and relate ...
ways in 1957-1958.
History
The 1450 class was an evolution of the
1400 class, being built as a Co-Co instead of an A1A-A1A. This increased the weight by but improved the tractive effort. They mainly operated in
South East Queensland
South East Queensland (SEQ) is a bio-geographical, metropolitan, political and administrative region of the state of Queensland in Australia, with a population of approximately 3.8 million people out of the state's population of 5.1 million. T ...
. To accommodate the Co-Co bogies, the unit was lengthened on both ends. The Sarmiento Railway in Argentina operated similarly-lengthened G12s, officially designated the GR12. The South American units differed from the Australian ones in having only the No. 1 end hood lengthened. The first was withdrawn in December 1986.
Three have been preserved by
Queensland Rail
Queensland Rail (QR) is a railway operator in Queensland, Australia. Owned by the Queensland Government, it operates local and long-distance passenger services, as well as owning and maintaining approximately 6,600 kilometres of track and relate ...
's Heritage Division, and are stored at Workshops Rail Museum,
North Ipswich
North Ipswich is a suburb of Ipswich in the City of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. In the , North Ipswich had a population of 4,515 people.
Raymonds Hill is a neighbourhood within the suburb of North Ipswich.
Geography
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Diesel Locomotives
Association of Tourist Railways Queensland 13 March 2011
Status table
References
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Clyde Engineering locomotives
Co-Co locomotives
Diesel locomotives of Queensland
Queensland Rail locomotives
Railway locomotives introduced in 1957
Diesel-electric locomotives of Australia
3 ft 6 in gauge locomotives of Australia