The Emu Bay Railway 11 class were a class of diesel-hydraulic locomotives built by

Walkers Limited Walkers Limited was an Australian engineering company, based in Maryborough, Queensland. It built ships and railway locomotives. The Walkers factory still produces railway locomotives and rolling stock as part of Downer Rail. History In ...

, Maryborough for the

Emu Bay Railway The Emu Bay Railway was a Tasmania, Australian railway company. The railway was significant during full operation, in that it linked the Tasmanian Government Railways system at Burnie with that at Zeehan that further linked to the Mount L ...

between 1969 and 1971.

History

Between 1969 and 1971, the

took delivery of seven

diesel-hydraulic locomotive A diesel locomotive is a type of railway locomotive in which the prime mover is a diesel engine. Several types of diesel locomotives have been developed, differing mainly in the means by which mechanical power is conveyed to the driving wheels ...

s from

. All were included in the April 1998 sale of the Emu Bay Railway to the

Australian Transport Network Australian Transport Network (ATN) was a freight railway operator in Australia that commenced operating in November 1997. The company operated narrow gauge trains in Tasmania and standard gauge trains in New South Wales and Victoria. It was for ...

. Following the cessation of

vacuum brake The vacuum brake is a braking system employed on trains and introduced in the mid-1860s. A variant, the automatic vacuum brake system, became almost universal in British train equipment and in countries influenced by British practice. Vacuum bra ...

d trains in March 2002, they were withdrawn and sold to

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operators.11 Class
Rail Tasmania

Status table

References

{{Reflist B-B locomotives Diesel-hydraulic locomotives of Australia Diesel locomotives of Tasmania Railway locomotives introduced in 1969 Walkers Limited locomotives 3 ft 6 in gauge locomotives of Australia