The Western Australian Government Railways H class (diesel) is a class of five diesel locomotives built by English Electric at Rocklea for the Western Australian Government Railways from 1964. They were bought to help with the conversion of the 657-kilometre Eastern Goldfields Railway from Perth to Kalgoorlie to standard gauge, were shipped by sea from Rocklea and hauled on narrow gauge to Upper Swan, and the first entered service in January 1965. When the gauge conversion was finished they worked local freight and infrastructure trains. H4 was scrapped in October 1992, the others shunted at Forrestfield until 1996, and all were sold in 1997 to SCT Logistics as shunters at Dynon, Islington and Kewdale.
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The H class are a class of diesel locomotives
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