Queensland Railways 2350 class

The Queensland Railways 2350 class was a class of diesel locomotives built by English Electric at Rocklea for Queensland Railways in 1973 and 1974. They were built for the Blackwater and Moura coal lines and based at Gladstone, and when electrification of the coal lines made them surplus all were sold in 1987 to AN Tasrail, where they entered service as the ZB class. They were very similar to the Tasrail Za class, and the builder numbers of the first four Za class locomotives follow on in sequence from those of the 2350s and are followed by those of the 2370s. In 1995 one was rebuilt by Australian National at Port Augusta with a raked cab similar to the EL class and renumbered ZR1, and in 1997 a second was rebuilt at Launceston as ZR2. In 2003 three were sold to South Spur Rail Services, two of them shipped to Western Australia to operate infrastructure trains. One locomotive, ZB 5 (2352), has been preserved by the Launceston and North East Railway, the first of its class in preservation.