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Clyde Engineering

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Australian equipment and locomotive manufacturer

Clyde Engineering was an Australian manufacturer of locomotives, rolling stock, and other industrial products. It was founded in September 1898 by a syndicate of Sydney businessmen buying the Granville factory of timber merchants Hudson Brothers. The company won contracts for railway rolling stock, a sewerage system, trams and agricultural machinery.2 It ceased to exist in 1996.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1898Founded1
  • Industrylocomotive manufacturing1
  • HeadquartersNorth Sydney1
  • Legal formpublic company1
  • Listed onAustralian Securities Exchange1

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Photo: Commissioner Geoff, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons5

Clyde Engineering was an Australian manufacturer of locomotives, rolling stock, and other industrial products.2

Corporate structure

Clyde Engineering sits at the top of its group. 2 entities, 1 country on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

  • Clyde Engineering North Sydney

Built from subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0); major holders from Schedules 13D and 13G. Each entity in the chart links to its source.

Products and brands

Products

Amongst the classes of locomotives built by Clyde Engineering were:

Commonwealth Railways

4 G class Granville

10 L class Granville

8 K class

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New South Wales

10 C30T class rebuilt from C30 class Granville

45 C32 class Granville

65 C36 class Granville

5 C38 class Granville

30 D50 class Granville

160 D53 class Granville

120 D55 class Granville

25 D57 class Granville

South Australia

10 740 class Granville

Tasmania

20 Q class Granville

1 P class Granville

Commonwealth Railways / Australian National

47 GM class Granville

17 CL class Granville

6 NJ class Granville

8 AL class Rosewater

10 BL class Rosewater

15 DL class Kelso

11 AN class Somerton

New South Wales

6 42 class Granville

10 421 class Granville

20 422 class Granville

18 49 class Granville

84 81 class Kelso

58 82 class Braemar

Victoria

26 B class Granville

18 S class Granville

94 T class Granville

75 Y class Granville

24 X class Granville / Rosewater

10 C class Rosewater

33 G class Rosewater / Somerton

11 A class (rebuilt from B class) Rosewater

13 P class (rebuilt from T class) Somerton

25 N class Somerton

5 H class (Modified T class) Granville

Queensland

13 1400 class Granville

10 1450 class Granville

42 1460 class Granville

29 1502 class Granville

27 1550 class Eagle Farm

12 1700 class Eagle Farm

56 1720 class Eagle Farm

27 2100 class Eagle Farm

11 2130 class Eagle Farm

8 2141 class Eagle Farm

14 2150 class Eagle Farm

45 2170 class Eagle Farm

24 2400 class Eagle Farm

18 2450 class Eagle Farm

38 2470 class Eagle Farm

Western Australia

25 A class Granville

5 J class Granville

27 L class Granville / Eagle Farm

13 DB class Rosewater

19 Q class Forrestfield

11 S class Forrestfield

Mining

9 BHP Whyalla DE class Granville

5 Hamersley Iron EMD SD50 class Rosewater

1 Goldsworthy Mining Company GML10 Kelso

New Zealand

DA class NO's 1430–1439, Phase II variant of the class. Featured longer-than-standard chassis to accommodate a larger fuel tank than the earlier Phase I (1955) variant.

DBR class rebuilt from Canadian-built DB class in 1980–1982.

DC class rebuilt from Canadian-built Phase III DA class locomotives from 1978 to 1981.

Queensland

22 3300/3400 class Kelso / Somerton

South Australia

50 3000 class railcars Somerton

New South Wales

205 Suburban single deck carriages

New South Wales

10 C-Class Granville (delivered 1899–1900)

D-Class Granville (1890s)

70 E-Class Granville (delivered 1902–1903)

260 F-Class Granville (delivered 1899–1902)

195 R-Class Granville (delivered 1933–1935)

55 R1-Class Granville (delivered 1935)

Other non-rail related products

Lawnmowers and lead batteries – 1930s

Servicing aircraft, naval vessels

Mining equipment

Automobile parts and accessories

Bulldozers

Bus bodies

Bridges (e.g. The Batemans Bay vertical lift bridge)

Cranes

Structural steel (e.g. trusses for the Peats Ferry Bridge)

Air cargo

Lorries

Filtration Systems (e.g. fume hoods, dust extractors, air filters)

Roller Doors

Materials Handling Equipment

Automobile Assembly Paint Lines

Manufacturing Facilities

Granville closed 1973

Kelso opened early 1970s, closed before 2014

Somerton

Eagle Farm closed 1995

Rosewater opened 1974, closed April 1986

Forrestfield established in 1997 to assemble the Westrail Q and S classes, closed 1998

Non rail products

Woodville North – Clyde Apac Industries (Air filtration systems, Lemcol materials handling systems, Selson air jacks)

Revesby – B&D roller door systems

Port Kembla – Clyde Carruthers

Because of capacity constraints, in the 1990s Clyde leased Australian National Industries' Braemar factory to fulfill its order for FreightCorp 82 class locomotives.

From Wikipedia’s article on Clyde Engineering, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Subsidiaries and ownership

Subsidiaries

From Wikidata.1

Timeline

  1. Jul 15, 1996Dissolved Dissolved1
  2. 1898Founded Founded1

Sources

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