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New Zealand DE class locomotive
The New Zealand DE class locomotive is a New Zealand class of shunting diesel-electric locomotives. The New Zealand Railways intended to replace steam locomotives for shunting duties with this class. They are physically similar to the Tasmanian Government Railways X class, which were also of English Electric design.
==Introduction==
Although NZR intended to use the class as a heavy transfer shunter, four of the DEs were used in pairs (each locomotive crewed) on the 1953—1954 Royal Train tour when Queen Elizabeth II visited New Zealand. This was to give a sense of modernity to the public and to show what the class could be capable of. The DE was trialed for use on suburban passenger trains in Auckland and Wellington as well as on lesser regional passenger services and branchline freight. The class was also the first to use the new Murupara Branch; for construction then for log trains on the still unsettled track bed.〔Churchman, Geoffrey B., and Hurst, Tony; ''The Railways of New Zealand: A Journey Through History'' p114 (1990, HarperCollins, Auckland) ISBN 1-86950-015-6〕 This has given the DE class an unofficial status of the first mainline diesel electric locomotive in NZR service, a title correctly applied to another English Electric class, the DF class of 1954.
The class was initially based in the North Island, but four of the class were sent to the South Island in 1981. The class was slowly dispersed to secondary yards on the New Zealand network, such as Napier, Dunedin and Invercargill.
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