#3589· HLD 55 / CFL Class 1800
Belgian Railways Class 55
🇧🇪 Belgium ·built by Ateliers de Constructions Electriques de Charleroi· from 1961· class of 42 Belgian and Luxemburg diesel locomotives
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10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. 5540-5515 at Kinkempois: Wikimedia Commons· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 2. Gouvy station 1980: Smiley.toerist· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. 09.06.91 Luxembourg 1803 & 1817 (13175308904): Phil Richards from London, UK· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 4. Liège-Guillemins maart 1982 27: Smiley.toerist· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. Luik Guillemins 1990 1: Smiley.toerist· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 6. 2018-08-15 SNCB lok 5528 (Infrabel) repainted in green delivery on a touristic Service for Chemin de fer du Bocq (near Spontin): Noben k· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 7. Ancien atelier de Schaerbeek - 5540 (verte) et SR2 Bar Disco: Stratoswift· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 8. 2009-09-07 Namur 5203-5207-5503-5502: Phil Richards from London, UK· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 9. Luik Luxemburg july 1981 1: Smiley.toerist· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 10. Luik Guillemins in de winter 1982 II: Smiley.toerist· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The SNCB Class 55 is a NMBS/SNCB diesel locomotive. Six of these locomotives (5501, 5506, 5509, 5511, 5512 and 5514) are outfitted with TVM 430 signaling and a Scharfenberg coupler. This is for hauling broken-down or unpowered TGVs on line 1.
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 65 years ago, in 1961.
- 1.4 MW is about 17 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 18 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 19.6 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1961–1962
- status
- in service
- number built
- 62
- kind
- Diesel
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇧🇪 Belgium
- builders
- Ateliers de Constructions Electriques de Charleroi, La Brugeoise et Nivelles
- operators
- SNCB/NMBS, Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois
- top speed
- 120 km/h
- power
- 1.4 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co′Co′
- length
- 19.6 m
- weight
- 110 t
- Dutch name
- HLD 55 / CFL Class 1800
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q840835, Wikipedia: Belgian Railways Class 55 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.