Victorian Railways C class (diesel)

Specifications
UIC class	Co-Co
Gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in),; 1,600 mm (5 ft 3 in)
Length	20.73 m (68 ft 0 in)
Loco weight	135 tonnes (133 long tons; 149 short tons)
Fuel type	Diesel
Fuel capacity	10,130 L (2,230 imp gal; 2,680 US gal)
Prime mover	Electro-Motive Diesel 16-645-E3
Engine type	V16 diesel engine
Aspiration	Turbocharged
Alternator	Electro-Motive Diesel AR-10 alternator
Traction motors	D77/78 DC, 6 of
Cylinders	16
Cylinder size	(? x ?)

Type and origin
Power type	Diesel-electric
Builder	Clyde Engineering, Rosewater
Model	Electro-Motive Diesel GT26CW
Build date	1977/78
Total produced	10

Victorian Railways C class
	250px C501 at the Seymour Railway Heritage Centre; in December 2007
Type and origin
Power type	Diesel-electric
Builder	Clyde Engineering, Rosewater
Model	Electro-Motive Diesel GT26CW
Build date	1977/78
Total produced	10
Specifications
UIC class	Co-Co
Gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in),; 1,600 mm (5 ft 3 in)
Length	20.73 m (68 ft 0 in)
Loco weight	135 tonnes (133 long tons; 149 short tons)
Fuel type	Diesel
Fuel capacity	10,130 L (2,230 imp gal; 2,680 US gal)
Prime mover	Electro-Motive Diesel 16-645-E3
Engine type	V16 diesel engine
Aspiration	Turbocharged
Alternator	Electro-Motive Diesel AR-10 alternator
Traction motors	D77/78 DC, 6 of
Cylinders	16
Cylinder size	(? x ?)
Performance figures
Maximum speed	133 km/h (83 mph)
Power output	2,237 kW (3,000 hp)
Career
Operators	Victorian Railways
Number in class	10
Numbers	C501-C510
First run	14 May 1977
Preserved	C501
Current owner	CFCL Australia; Southern Shorthaul Railroad
Disposition	9 stored, 1 preserved

The C Class are a class of diesel locomotive built by Clyde Engineering, Rosewater for the Victorian Railways in 1977/78.

History

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Silverton Rail Cs1 in July 1998

Southern Shorthaul Railroad C503 on Kooragang Island in January 2011

The C class were purchased by the Victorian Railways for heavy freight haulage. They are fitted with safety cabs. Initially the first four were placed on the North East line to haul services from Melbourne to Albury while the latter six were put on the broad gauge to haul services on the Serviceton line. Following upgrades to the infrastructure they were also able to operate on the Ballarat to Geelong line and from January 1982 through to Adelaide with the standard gauge units transferred to the broad gauge.^[1]

In September 1988, two were transferred back to the standard gauge and began to operate services through to Sydney.^[2]^[3]

Following the Melbourne-Adelaide railway being closed for gauge conversion, all remaining broad gauge units were converted to standard gauge and operated services from Melbourne to Parkes until the converted line reopened in July 1995. All were transferred by V/Line to National Rail in June 1995.^[4]

Following the delivery of National Rail's NR class locomotives, the C class were put into storage at Junee Locomotive Depot in 1997 before being moved to Islington Railway Workshops, Adelaide.^[5]^[6] Unlike the other locomotives National Rail initially used, ownership of the C class passed to National Rail.^[7] In August 1999 two were repainted in National Rail livery and returned to service as Melbourne shunters.^[8]

The class was then sold with one going to Seymour Railway Heritage Centre and the other nine to Allco Rail with two leased to Pacific National and seven to Silverton Rail as the Cs class.^[4] Following the collapse of Allco Finance three were sold to Chicago Freight Car Leasing Australia and six to Greentrains in January 2008 with all resuming their original identities.^[9]^[10]^[11] In April 2016, the six Greentrains units were sold to Southern Shorthaul Railroad.^[12]

Locomotives

Locomotive	Name	Entered service	Owner	Operator	Livery	Status
C501	George Brown	14 May 1977	Seymour Railway Heritage Centre	Qube Logistics	VR Blue & gold	Preserved Operational
C502		22 June 1977	CFCL Australia	Qube Logistics	CFCLA Blue & yellow	Stored Goulburn
C503		19 July 1977	CFCL Australia	Southern Shorthaul Railroad	SSR yellow & black	Stored Goulburn
C504		18 August 1977	Southern Shorthaul Railroad	Qube Logistics	Blue & yellow	Stored Lithgow
C505		13 September 1977	Southern Shorthaul Railroad	Sydney Rail Services	Blue & yellow	Stored Lithgow
C506		6 October 1977	Southern Shorthaul Railroad	Sydney Rail Services	Greentrains Green & yellow	Stored Lithgow
C507		4 November 1977	Southern Shorthaul Railroad	Sydney Rail Services	Blue & yellow	Stored Lithgow
C508		16 December 1977	CFCL Australia	Qube Logistics	CFCLA Blue & yellow	Stored Goulburn
C509		10 March 1978	Southern Shorthaul Railroad	Sydney Rail Services	Greentrains Green & yellow	Stored Lithgow
C510		11 July 1978	Southern Shorthaul Railroad	Qube Logistics	Greentrains Green & yellow	Stored Lithgow

References

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↑ "C Class" Railway Digest October 1988 page 378
↑ "C Class" Railway Digest November 1988 page 406
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 C Class diesel electric locomotives Mark Bau's VR website
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↑ Railway Digest October 1998 page 41
↑ "One Nation - A retrospective and perspective" Railway Digest August 1997 page 21
↑ Railway Digest October 1999 page 4
↑ C Class (C501 - C510) Railpage
↑ C Class Vicsig
↑ "The 80 Class in Private Operation" Motive Power issue 80 March 2012 page 33
↑ Disposal of Greentrains rollingstock Engenco 28 April 2016

External links

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[2] "C Class" Railway Digest October 1988 page 378

[3] "C Class" Railway Digest November 1988 page 406

[MarkBau-4] 4.0 ^4.1 C Class diesel electric locomotives Mark Bau's VR website

[5] Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

[6] Railway Digest October 1998 page 41

[7] "One Nation - A retrospective and perspective" Railway Digest August 1997 page 21

[8] Railway Digest October 1999 page 4

[9] C Class (C501 - C510) Railpage

[10] C Class Vicsig

[11] "The 80 Class in Private Operation" Motive Power issue 80 March 2012 page 33

[12] Disposal of Greentrains rollingstock Engenco 28 April 2016

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v t e Locomotives and rolling stock of the Victorian Railways, predecessors and successors
Melbourne & Hobson's Bay Railway Company	Pile Driver Engine (1854) First Engine - 2-2-2WT (1854) 2-4-0WT (1854) Pier Donkey No.5 - 0-4-0WT (1857) 2-4-0WT (1858), later N Class
Geelong & Melbourne Railway Company	Ariel - 0-4-0T (1855) Titania, Oberon, Typhoon & Sirocco - 2-2-2WT (1855) Hurricane & Cyclone - 2-4-0WT (1857) Goliath, Hercules, Smason & Tubal-Cain - 0-6-0WT (1855)
Melbourne & Suburban Railway Company	Hawthorn & Richmond - 2-4-0T (1860) Kew & BN#1378 - 2-4-0WT (1861)
Melbourne Railway Company	Windsor & Prahran - 2-4-0WT (1863)
Melbourne & Essendon Railway Company	Essendon (BN#458), BN#459 & BN#488 2-4-0T (1861), later SAR E Class
Melbourne & Hobson's Bay United Railway Company	Toorak, Victoria, No.16 & No.19 - 2-4-0T (1865) 4-4-0WT (1871), later C Class Pier Donkey No.24 - 0-4-0WT (1875)
Victorian Railways steam locomotives, F.C. Christy period (1858-1870)	No.1 (passenger) 2-2-2, later 2-4-0 (1857) 'Old' V class (goods) 0-6-0 (1857) P class 0-6-0 (1859) J class 2-2-2, later 2-4-0 (1859) B class 2-4-0 (1861) L class 2-4-0ST (1861) O class 0-6-0 (1861) G&MRC engines 19, 21, 34-44 evens only (1960's)
Victorian Railways steam locomotives, W. Meikle period (1871-1877)	No.100 2-4-0 (1872) Q class 0-6-0 (1873) No.103, No.105 & U class 0-6-0 (1873) T class 0-6-0 (1874) F class 2-4-0 (1874), later 2-4-2T (1910) K class 2-4-0 (1874) G class 4-4-0 (1877) H class 4-4-0 (1877) No.162 & No.164 4-4-0 (1877)
Victorian Railways steam locomotives, S. Mirls period (1878-1890)	M class 4-4-0T (1879), later ME class 4-4-2T (1901) 'Old' R class 0-6-0 (1879) W & S class 4-6-0 (1880) Pier locomotives 0-4-0WT (1880) 'Belgian' R class 0-6-0 (1883) Locomotives for Motor service - Rowan 0-4-0T (1883) 'Old' A class 4-4-0 (1884) X class 0-6-0 (1886) N class 2-4-0WT (1886) C Class 4-4-0WT (1886) D class 4-4-0 (1887) Y class 0-6-0 (1888) 'New' A class 4-4-0 (1889) 'New' R & R^Y class 0-6-0 (1889) E class 2-4-2T (1889)
Victorian Railways steam locomotives, A.D. Smith period (1877, 1890-1893)	E^E class 0-6-2T (1893) Locomotives for Motor service - Z Class 2-4-0T & 0-6-0T (1893)
Victorian Railways steam locomotives, T.H. Woodroffe period (1893-1912)	V class 2-8-0 (1899) A^A class 4-4-0 (1889) M class 4-4-0T (1879), later M^E class 4-4-2T (1901) D^D class 4-6-0 (1902), D^D_E later D⁴ class 4-6-2T (1908) A² class 4-6-0 (1907) Modified tank locomotives for Motor service - N class 2-4-0WT (1895), C Class 4-4-0WT (1904), F class 2-4-2T (1910) Modified tender locomotives for Motor service - H150 4-4-0 (1908), J4, J6 2-4-0 (1908)
Victorian Railways steam locomotives, W.M. Shannon period (1912-1919)	C class 2-8-0 (1918)
Victorian Railways steam locomotives, A.E. Smith period (1919-1928)	D¹ class 4-6-0 (1922) , D² class 4-6-0 (1922) K class 2-8-0 (1922) N class 2-8-2 (1925) S class 4-6-2 (1928)
Victorian Railways steam locomotives, N.C. Harris period (1928-1933)	D³ class 4-6-0 (1929) X class 2-8-2 (1929)
Victorian Railways steam locomotives, A.C. Ahlston period (1933-1955)	H class 4-8-4 (1941) R class 4-6-4 (1951) J class 2-8-0 (1954)
Diesel-electric	A Class Co-Co (1983) B class Co-Co (1952) C class Co-Co (1977) F class 0-6-0 (1951) G class Co-Co (1984) H class Bo-Bo (1968) N class Co-Co (1985) P class Bo-Bo (1984) S class Co-Co (1957) T class Bo-Bo (1955) V class Co-Co (2002) X class Co-Co (1966) XR class Co-Co (2002) XRB class Co-Co (2005) Y class Bo-Bo (1963)
Diesel-hydraulic	M class 0-6-0 (1959) V class 0-4-0 (1959) W class 0-6-0 (1959) CS class CargoSprinter (2002)
Rail tractor	RT class 0-4-0 (1952) LT4 0-4-0
Electric	E class Bo-Bo (1923) L class Co-Co (1953)
Railmotors	Rowan Steam Car McKeen Kerr Stuart AEC Leyland (Double Ended) Brill DERM (PERM) Walker railmotors DRC railcar Sprinter DMU VLocity DMU Trailer cars
Road transferrable locomotives	RTL class
Suburban electric	Tait Swing Door Parcels Harris Hitachi Comeng Refurbished Harris 4D double deck X'Trapolis 100 Siemens Nexas
Passenger carriages	Fixed wheel types Wooden bogie cars Steel bogie carriages 44ft American Saloon types 45ft type 50ft 2in type ABCL cars E type carriages H type carriages G type carriages K type carriages C & L type carriages N type carriages O type carriages P type carriages PL type carriages R type carriages S type carriages V type carriages W & U type carriages Z type carriages Dining & Buffet cars Parlor, Lounge & Club cars Sleeping cars Joint and shared stock (SAR) Joint and shared stock (NSWGR)
Freight vehicles by type	Box vans Flat Wagons Hopper wagons Iced vans Louvre vans Open wagons Tank wagons
Freight vehicles by traffic	Ballast, Sleepers and Spoil Black Coal, Brown Coal & Briquettes Cement Powder Coiled & Slab Steel Corpses Dolomite Explosives Fertiliser Flour, Grain & Rice Gypsum Refrigerated Goods Lime Livestock Mail vans Bitumen, Oil & Petroleum Quarry products Perishables Sand Soda Ash Timber Vehicles & Vehicle Parts Water
Vans	Fixed-Wheel (D, Z vans) Power vans Bogie guards vans Mail vans
2 ft 6 in (762 mm) Narrow gauge	NA class 2-6-2T (1898) G class 2-6-0+0-6-2 (1925) Passenger carriages Freight vehicles Guards vans Other
Other	Rail tractors Crane locomotives Miscellaneous Special loads Way and Works stock Staff Accommodation
Named or significant trains	Albury Express Ambulance Train Better Farming Train The Boat Train Display (Arts) train Funeral Trains Fruit Flyer Geelong Flyer The Gippslander The Great Northern Limited Intercapital Daylight The Jubilee Train Train of Knowledge Melbourne Express The Mildura Sunlight The Northerner The Overland RAAF Recruiting Train Reso Train Rutherglen Red Southern Aurora Spirit of Progress State Cars & Royal Trains Sunraysia Express Sydney Express The Veteran Train The Vinelander The Vintage Train The WestCoaster Wirth's Circus Train
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