#5054· CFL 3000
CFL Class 3000
🇱🇺 Luxembourg ·built by Alstom· from 1997· class of 20 Luxembourg electric locomotives
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4 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. 3003 just north of Vielsalm: Wikimedia Commons· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 2. CFL 3008, Gare Walferdange: MMFE· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. CFL 3004 - BR 3000 Alstom - City of Luxemburg (51147114874): Frans Berkelaar· CC BY 2.0
- 4. CFL Class 3000 Luxembourg: Ex13· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The CFL class 3000 is a class of twenty mixed use 200 km/h Tractis type electric locomotives ordered by the Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois (CFL) in 1995 as part of a joint order with SNCB of 80 units from Alstom.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 29 years ago, in 1997.
- Top speed is 1.5× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 12 minutes.
- 5.2 MW is about 61 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 15 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 19.1 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
electric locomotive: Draws power from overhead wires or a third rail and pulls separate carriages.
spec sheet
- built
- 1997–1998
- number built
- 20
- kind
- Electric
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇱🇺 Luxembourg
- builders
- Alstom, ALSTOM Transportation Germany
- operators
- Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois
- top speed
- 200 km/h
- power
- 5.2 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- electric system
- 25 kV AC, 3 kV DC, 1.5 kV DC
- wheel arrangement
- Bo′Bo′
- length
- 19.1 m
- weight
- 90 t
- Dutch name
- CFL 3000
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q856218, Wikipedia: CFL Class 3000 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.