The Commonwealth Railways NSU class is a class of diesel-electric locomotives built in 1954 and 1955 by the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company, England, for the Commonwealth Railways to be
Static-displayed NSU63 at the Adelaide River Rail Heritage Precinct
Pichi Richi Railway's restored NSU52, crossing Saltia bridge near Quorn in October 2019, is only one of two NSU class locos in operation.
NSU53: sealed body shell on bogies near the entrance to the Old Ghan Heritage Railway and Museum, Alice Springs, 2015
NSU54 at the Pichi Richi Railway, Quorn, South Australia in 2007 – a source of spare parts for NSU52, which regularly heads tour trains
Commonwealth Railways was a railway operator established in 1917 by the Australian Government to administer the Trans-Australia and Port Augusta-to-Darwin railways. It was effectively a statutory corp
Commonwealth Railways NSU class
…NSU class is a class of diesel-electric locomotives built in 1954 and 1955 by the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company, England, for the Commonwealth Railways to be deployed on the demanding narrow-gauge Central Australia Railway and North Australia Railway. The last withdrawal from revenue service was in…
Preserved Commonwealth Railways GM class diesel locomotive at the National Railway Museum, Port Adelaide
Preserved NSU class narrow-gauge diesel-electric locomotive at the Old Ghan Heritage Railway and Museum, Alice Springs, in 2006. As with the NT class, these locomotives operated on both the North Australia Railway and the Central Australia Railway.
The flat, barren surroundings of Bopeechee, 777 km (483 mi) from Port Augusta, typified most of the Central Australia Railway. Although the railway served as a lifeline for outback communities, for most of the route the land was insufficiently productive to generate profitable traffic.
GM class on the Trans-Australian at Rawlinna in May 1986