BHP Whyalla DE class

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BHP Whyalla DE class

The BHP Whyalla DE class are a class of diesel locomotives built by Clyde Engineering, Granville for BHP between 1956 and 1965.

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BHP Whyalla DE class
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Rebuilt DE01 (Now 1301) on a Genesee and Wyoming Australia iron ore train, 2012
Type and origin
Power typeDiesel-electric
BuilderClyde Engineering
Granville
ModelEMD G8
EMD G12
Build date19561965
Total produced9
RebuilderMorrison-Knudsen Australia
Rebuild date19931995
Number rebuilt6
Specifications
Configuration:
  UICBo-Bo
Gauge1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in)
1,435 mm (4 ft 8+12 in) standard gauge
Fuel typeDiesel
Prime moverEMD 567
Career
OperatorsBHP
Number in class9
NumbersDE01DE09
Delivered1956
Current ownerAurizon
SCT Logistics
Disposition4 in service, 1 exported to South Africa, 3 scrapped
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History

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In 1956, BHP purchased two Electro-Motive Diesel G8 locomotives from Clyde Engineering for use at its narrow gauge Iron Knob iron-ore quarry.[1]

In 1956, the first of four larger Electro-Motive Diesel G12 locomotives was delivered from Clyde Engineering for use on the narrow gauge BHP Whyalla Tramway, a fifth was delivered in June 1961.[1]

Following the construction of the 39.5 kilometre Coffin Bay Tramway standard gauge line between Proper Bay and Coffin Bay on the Eyre Peninsula, two standard gauge G12s were purchased in 1965.[1][2] Following the quarry railway being closed in 1968, the G8s were both transferred to the standard gauge railway.[1]

Between 1993 and 1995, six were remanufactured by Morrison-Knudsen Australia, at its Whyalla factory, receiving new cabs.[3][4][5]

In 2003, the Whyalla Steelworks became part of OneSteel and the rail operations transferred to Australian Railroad Group. The DEs were renumbered as the 1250 and 1300 classes.[6] With the split up of Australian Railroad Group in 2006, the four remaining rebuilt DE class transferred to Genesee & Wyoming Australia (later becoming One Rail Australia,) and were included in the sale of ORA's non-coal assets to Aurizon in 2022.

The sole unrebuilt G12 DE class, 1251 was transferred to QR National and was later sold to Apex Industrial, which exported the locomotive to South Africa in 2015. It is now stored as a parts source at African Rail & Traction Services, Cor Delfos, Pretoria.

During the 1990s remanufacturing program, DE02, the sole unrebuilt G8 DE class, had been stripped as a source of parts. In 2005-2006 it was rebuilt at Islington Railway Workshops for SCT Logistics for use in Parkes. As it was very similar to the Victorian Railways T class, it was renumbered T414.[7]

Status table

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LocomotiveModelIn serviceOwnerStatusNotes
DE01EMD G8Oct 1956AurizonIn serviceRebuilt as DE1 Feb 1994, renumbered 1301
DE02EMD G8Nov 1956SCT LogisticsIn serviceRebuilt by Islington Railway Workshops as T414
DE03EMD G12Nov 1956AurizonIn serviceRebuilt as DE3 Sep 1994, renumbered 1302
DE04EMD G12Dec 1956Genesee & Wyoming AustraliaIn serviceRebuilt as DE4 Mar 1995, renumbered 1303
DE05EMD G12May 1957African Rail & Traction ServicesStoredRenumbered 1251
DE06EMD G12Aug 1957BHPScrapped Nov 1996
DE07EMD G12Jun 1961AurizonIn serviceRebuilt as DE7 Mar 1994, renumbered 1304
DE08EMD G12Nov 1965Australian Railroad GroupScrapped Oct 2002Rebuilt as DE8 May 1994, destroyed in accident Apr 2002 [4]
DE09EMD G12Dec 1965Australian Railroad GroupScrapped Oct 2002Rebuilt as DE9 May 1993, destroyed in accident Apr 2002[4]
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