WAGR RA class

The Western Australian Government Railways RA class are hood type general purpose diesel-electric locomotives built by English Electric at Rocklea for the Western Australian Government Railways between 1969 and 1972, a revised version of the R class. They were slightly longer with a longer wheelbase and had no dynamic brake, but were otherwise mechanically and electrically identical to the R class and used the same English Electric bogies. Eleven more were ordered after the R class, and two were financed by the Lefroy Salt Company for a 13-kilometre spur off the Esperance line. In 1973 a low nose version was ordered for the Tasmanian Government Railways as its Z class, and in 1974 three RA locomotives were fitted with standard gauge bogies and became KA211 to KA213.