WAGR R class (diesel)

The Western Australian Government Railways R class (diesel) are hood type general purpose diesel-electric locomotives built by English Electric at Rocklea for the Western Australian Government Railways in 1968. In 1968 the railways took delivery of five narrow gauge versions of the K class for bauxite traffic, the last three being fitted with 6 tonnes of ballast to improve tractive effort, and all had dynamic brakes. They resembled the Queensland Railways 1300 class, and all equipment except the traction motors was interchangeable with the standard gauge K class. The English Electric bogies had low weight transfer, and the revised RA class followed them.