Locomotive Profile: New South Wales Railways "80" Class Alco 1605 kW Diesel Electric Locomotive 'A Photographic Profile' (TH-492A)

Product No.: TH-492A

Title: Locomotive Profile: New South Wales Railways "80" Class Alco 1605 kW Diesel Electric Locomotive 'A Photographic Profile'

Author(s): Barrack, Richard & Sargent, John
Illustrator(s): N/A
Publisher: Train Hobby Publications
ISBN: 1921122218

Condition: New

Binding: Softcover
Dust Jacket: No Jacket
Edition: 1st Edition
Publication Year: 2009

Features: 56 Pages with Colour Photos.

The 50 members of the 2000hp 80 class were built by Commonwealth Engineering at Granville, a western suburb of Sydney, between 1978 and 1983. They were a continuation of the body style pioneered by the 422 class of 1968 and the 442 class of 1972.

 Their main claims to fame were that they were the last Alco engined locomotives to be built for the NSW system and the first to feature cab air conditioning. In the early eighties they were almost the sole class of motive power used on the far Western line to Broken Hill, but they have also worked on the North Coast Line, the Southern Line and with the less parochial policies of more recent management regimes, in South Australia.

Until the delivery of the NR class they were also prominent on National Rail trains. When the second batch of 20 entered service in 1982/83 they were painted in the new "Reverse" tuscan scheme.