Publisher: Train Hobby Publications
Publication Year: 1998
Format: Softcover
Pages: 48
Photography: All colour
Condition: New

Locomotive Profile – New South Wales Railways ’43’ Class provides a detailed photographic record of the unique NSW 43 class diesel-electric locomotives, documenting their operational history across the state. This volume highlights the distinctive design and versatility of the class through full-colour images of the locomotives in service.

The 43 class was a small, highly unusual class of six diesel locomotives, built by A. Goninan & Co, Broadmeadow as a subcontractor to Australian Electrical Industries for the New South Wales Department of Railways between 1956 and 1957. These locomotives were unique in Australia for combining Alco power units with GE Transportation Systems-designed bodies, a legacy of the former Alco-GE partnership dissolved in 1953.

Although their design originated in the United States, only two similar UM20 cabs and two booster units were ever built for the Union Pacific and Erie Railroads, making the NSW 43 class a rare and historically significant diesel design in Australian rail history.

Presented as a 48-page, full-colour, big-picture landscape album, this book is an essential reference for NSW railway historians, diesel locomotive enthusiasts, modellers, and Australian rail book collectors, preserving the legacy of one of Australia’s most distinctive diesel classes.