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Currently Preserved SAR class leader number 930 at the National Railway Museum.
900 Class
- 900-909 (10 units) built 1951-1953
- 1,600mm-gauge, A1A-A1A diesel-electric, 1,590hp
Built at the same time as, but only just beaten into service by GM1 and its sisters, the 900 Class were bought by the South Australian Railways for use on the South Line over Adelaide Hills. Unlike the Clyde streamliners which were adapted from the EMD F Series in the US, the ten SAR-built, but English Electric equipped 900 Class, were clearly inspired by the arguably more grand ALCo PA model locomotives in design and style. They endured long enough to see service with Australian National Railways following the amalgamation of the SAR and Commonwealth Railways, but ended their days soon after having spent their twilight years on then still broad gauge lines to the north Adelaide.
- 900 – National Railway Museum, Port Adelaide (display)
- 907, 909 – Australian Locomotive and Railway Carriage Company (stored Tailem Bend)
- 901-906, 908 – Scrapped
streamlinersaustralia.org.au/s…
