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The Victorian Railways M class are a diesel-hydraulic powered railway shunting locomotive based at the Newport workshops of the Victorian Railways in Victoria Australia.For a period of time the VR had been using old steam locomotives that were past their best to shunt at their Newport workshops and decided to construct two small shunting locomotives for use at their workshop facilities.Built by the Victorian Railways themselves with a Diesel-hydraulic transmission powered by an 112 kilowatts (150 hp) EMD power unit the two engines were given class M and the numbers were 231 and 232.