page_title: New Zealand DX class locomotive
section_title: Livery
hierarchical_section_title: New Zealand DX class locomotive / In service / Livery
caption_attribution_description: NZR Dx5356 Coming out of Avondale Station in Auckland NZ
context_page_description: The New Zealand DX class locomotive is a type of 49 Co-Co diesel-electric locomotives that currently operate on New Zealand's national railway network. All locomotives are owned by KiwiRail.
  Built by GE Transportation in Erie, Pennsylvania, United States, they were introduced to New Zealand between 1972 and 1976. The class is based on the General Electric U26C model, a narrow-gauge version of the GE U23C model.
  The locomotives have seen several upgrades since their introduction and three sub-classes now exist: the DXB, DXC and DXR.
context_section_description: Upon introduction, all the DX class members were painted in a livery consisting of the locomotive body painted orange except for a yellow segment at the top of the locomotives. This livery was known as "Clockwork Orange" after the Stanley Kubrick film "A Clockwork Orange."
  Between 1977 and 1986, the entire class was repainted in the International Orange "Fruit Salad" livery - red, grey, and yellow, which most of the class wore until the end of the decade. This livery had the road numbers displayed on the sides of the locomotives in large white numbers with DX 2612 the first to be painted as such. Since then, members of the DX class have received liveries including Cato Blue (Fruit Salad with blue instead of red), Bumble Bee (black and yellow), Corn-Cob (green and yellow) and the KiwiRail phase 1 and 2 schemes (grey, orange or red, and yellow). No DXs remain in the Fruit Salad, Cato Blue, Bumble Bee and Corn Cob liveries.
caption: DX 5356 leaving Avondale in the late 1980s. The locomotive is painted in the International Orange or "Fruit Salad" livery of NZR from the late 1970s onwards. Note the single front window above the short hood.
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