New South Wales 82 class locomotive

The 82 class are a class of diesel locomotives built by Clyde Engineering, Braemar for FreightCorp in 1994/95.

History

In 1992 a fleet of 55 EMD JT42C locomotives was ordered from Clyde Engineering, this was later increased to 58.^[1] The design was based on the prototype locomotive GML10 built by Clyde Engineering, Kelso in 1990.^[2][3] They have two cabs, built in a hood style. They were originally to be built at Kelso, but a lack of capacity saw Clyde Engineering lease Australian National Industries' Braemar plant.^[4]

In October 1997 three were destroyed in the Beresfield rail accident.^[2] The remaining 55 were included in the sale of FreightCorp to Pacific National in February 2002.^[5][6]

In June 2016, PacNat loco '8221' was seen alight when it was the 2nd loco on a loaded coal train. Examining was eventually done and nowadays '8221' is now no longer on rails, scrapped, in its FreightCorp livery.

All are in the Freightcorp livery except 8202, with Pacific National decals and are allocated to Pacific National's coal division mainly operating in New South Wales but also in South Australia on Leigh Creek line Telford Cut to Northern Power Station, Port Augusta coal services.^[2] 8202 is painted in Pacific National colours

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