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- Jun 21, 200192% CONFIDENCEfrom guinnessworldrecords.com
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- Jun 21, 200192% CONFIDENCEfrom guinnessworldrecords.com
BHP Iron Ore Sets the World Record for Longest, Heaviest Freight Train
- On 21 June 2001 BHP Iron Ore ran a 7.353 km (4.57 mile) train of 682 ore cars in Western Australia, recorded by Guinness as the longest and heaviest freight train[2][3]
- It was pushed by 8 GE AC6000CW diesel-electric locomotives and weighed 99,732.1 metric tonnes (Guinness); Wikipedia cites 82,000 tons of ore and also 99,734 tons[2][3]
- It ran 275 km from the Newman and Yandi mines to Port Hedland; Wikipedia places the run between Yandi and Port Hedland on the Mount Newman line[2][3]
- The train was assembled to test a control system letting the front driver control the other seven engines, spaced nearly a kilometre apart[3]
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- [1]90%youtube.com/watch?v=2344XSIKJXoyoutube.com· Posted Sep 15, 2026· Starts Jun 21, 2001· 33% of score
Confirmed by Guinness World Records[3], which credits BHP Iron Ore with running the record 7.353km train from the Newman/Yandi mines to Port Hedland on 21 June 2001.
- [2]72%Mount Newman railway line - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org· Added Sep 15, 2026· 33% of score
Wikipedia's article on the Mount Newman railway line corroborates that BHP's Pilbara iron-ore railway between Newman/Yandi and Port Hedland is the line that set the world's longest-train record, consistent with the pin's account of the June 2001 run.
- [3]92%Longest freight train | Guinness World Recordsguinnessworldrecords.com· Added Sep 15, 2026· Starts Jun 21, 2001 ✓· Ends Jun 21, 2001 ✓· 33% of score
Guinness World Records' own record page states the longest train ever was 7.353km long with 682 ore cars and 8 locomotives, run by BHP Iron Ore in Western Australia on 21 June 2001, matching the pin's date and details exactly.
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