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Renfe Class 313
🇪🇸 Spain ·built by American Locomotive Company· from 1965· class of 50 Spanish diesel-electric locomotives
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what is it?
The Renfe 313 (originally Renfe 1300.) was a class of 6 axle mainline diesel-electric locomotives built for Renfe by Euskalduna under license from Alco. 50 units were built in the mid-1960s, locomotives surplus to Renfe's requirements were sold to Comboios de Portugal (CP), Trenes de Buenos Aires, Argentina, and to the railway company of Minero Siderúrgica de Ponferrada.
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 61 years ago, in 1965.
- 1 MW is about 12 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 14 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 16.2 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 34 years (1965–1999).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1965
- in service from
- 1965
- retired
- 1999
- status
- retired
- number built
- 50
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇪🇸 Spain
- builders
- American Locomotive Company, Euskalduna
- operators
- Renfe Operadora, Red Nacional de los Ferrocarriles Españoles, Comboios de Portugal
- top speed
- 120 km/h
- power
- 1 MW
- gauge
- 1,668 mm Iberian broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- (A1A)'(A1A)'
- length
- 16.2 m
- weight
- 83.9 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
family
Sources: Wikidata Q5248842, Wikipedia: Renfe Class 313 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.