page_title: Commonwealth Railways CL class
section_title: Private ownership
hierarchical_section_title: Commonwealth Railways CL class / Private ownership
caption_attribution_description: English: Genesee and Wyoming CLP17 (Ex CL8) "Arabana" at North Geelong Grain Loop 24/9/2019
context_page_description: The CL class is a class of diesel locomotives built by Clyde Engineering, Granville for the Commonwealth Railways in several batches between 1970 and 1972.
  The class was the last in the world to be built with the Electro-Motive Diesel bulldog nose but differed from previous builds in having a mansard roof.
context_section_description: In November 1997 the CL class were sold to Australian Southern Railroad with Australian National's remaining freight operations. With the splitting up of the Australian Railroad Group in June 2006, ten went to QR National (now known as Aurizon) and six to Genesee & Wyoming Australia.
  In mid-2017, a fund-raising campaign was started with the aim of purchasing CLP10 from Apex International and restoring it externally to its as-built condition as CL17. On 21 June 2018, it was announced that the campaign had been successful in raising the $150,000 required to purchase the locomotive for preservation.
  In mid 2019 it was revealed that Southern Shorthaul Railroad (SSR) had purchased 4 locomotives from the Apex group. These included CLF1, CLF3, CLP9 & CLP12, with a 422 included in the sale as well. The locomotives were transferred from Goulburn to Cootamundra for reactivation with CLP12 trialing in April 2020.
caption: Genesee and Wyoming CLP17 "Arabana"
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