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Egyptian Republic Railways 4211 class
🇮🇱 Israel ·built by Arnold Jung Lokomotivfabrik· from 1953· class of 42 Egyptian diesel locomotives
what is it?
The Egyptian Republic Railways 4211 class was a class of 0-6-0 diesel shunter introduced on Egyptian Republic Railways (now Egyptian National Railways) in the 1950s. Arnold Jung Lokomotivfabrik in Jungenthal, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany built the first batch of 15 in 1953 and the second batch of 27 in 1955–56. During the 1956 Israeli invasion of Sinai number 4239 (Jung works number 21646) was captured in Sinai on the former Palestine Railways line between El Kantara East and Gaza.
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 73 years ago, in 1953.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1953–1955
- in service from
- 1953
- status
- retired
- number built
- 42
- kind
- diesel
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇮🇱 Israel
- builders
- Arnold Jung Lokomotivfabrik
- operators
- Israel Railways
- top speed
- —
- power
- 268 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 0-6-0
- nicknames
- "Abdel Nasser" (in Israel)
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5348439, Wikipedia: Egyptian Republic Railways 4211 class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.