A. E. Goodwin
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A. E. Goodwin was an Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n heavy engineering firm, which produced railway locomotive
Locomotive
A locomotive is a railway vehicle that provides the motive power for a train. The word originates from the Latin loco – "from a place", ablative of locus, "place" + Medieval Latin motivus, "causing motion", and is a shortened form of the term locomotive engine, first used in the early 19th...

s and rolling stock, as well as roadmaking machinery.

The company was a licence holder
License
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 for American Locomotive Company
American Locomotive Company
The American Locomotive Company, often shortened to ALCO or Alco , was a builder of railroad locomotives in the United States.-Early history:...

 (Alco) products, building almost 500 diesel locomotives for local railway operators throughout the 1950s and 1960. In 1961 the company was taken over by household appliance manufacturer A.G. Healing
A.G. Healing
A.G. Healing was an Australian manufacturing firm founded in 1896 by Alfred George Healing. Initially producing bicycles, in 1912 it became a proprietary company, with 50 employees and 25,000 icycles produced at the peak of production...

 Limited, and announced their closure in 1972.

Locomotives produced included the:
  • NSWGR 44 class
    New South Wales 44 class locomotive
    The New South Wales 44 class locomotives were one of the first locomotives built by A. E. Goodwin in the Alco tradition. One-hundred of these DL500B units were built. Introduced in 1957, these locomotives have served every part of NSW, from services in the North and South, to the Indian Pacific...

  • NSWGR 442 class
    New South Wales 442 class locomotive
    The 442 class locomotives were ordered and operated by the New South Wales Government Railways. They were the second generation of Alco units to be built, and were used on both main freight and passenger service in New South Wales, and throughout Australia since entering private ownership. The...

  • NSWGR 45 class
    New South Wales 45 class locomotive
    The New South Wales 45 class are a class of diesel-electric locomotives built for and operated by the New South Wales Government Railways from 1962...

  • NSWGR 48 class
    New South Wales 48 class locomotive
    The 48 Class are a diesel electric locomotive ordered by the New South Wales Government Railways from 1959. Once the most ubiquitous locomotive in New South Wales , the locomotives were built by A. E. Goodwin, based on Alco frames and prime movers, using General Electric electrical equipment...



  • SAR 600 class
    South Australian Railways 600 class (diesel)
    The 600 class is a class of mainline diesel locomotives of the South Australian Railways. They were built by A. E. Goodwin. They have a Co-Co wheelbase.The locomotive is a hood type with a long and short end and the driving position in the middle....

  • SAR 930 class
    South Australian Railways 930 class
    The 930 class of diesel locomotives were a class of mainline locomotive built by A. E. Goodwin for the South Australian Railways. They have a Co-Co wheelbase. Some are single ended, with a cab at the 'nose' end, while the balance are double ended, with a round cab at one end and a flat cab at the...

  • SAR 830 class
    South Australian Railways 830 class
    The 830 class of diesel locomotives were a class of branchline locomotive built by A. E. Goodwin. They had a Co-Co wheelbase and were operated by the South Australian Railways. Most were passed onto Australian National but two were retained by South Australia for the STA but were later sold to...


  • Silverton Tramway ST class
    Silverton ST27-ST29
    Silverton ST27-ST29 are diesel locomotives owned by South Australian Railways.All built for Narrow gauge on Silvertons Broken Hill to Cockburn line....


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