#3144· HLR 70
Belgian Railways Class 70
🇧🇪 Belgium ·built by Ateliers de Constructions Electriques de Charleroi· from 1954· class of 6 Belgian diesel locomotives
3 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. 7005 shunter loc: Peter Van den Bossche from Mechelen, Belgium· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 2. Diesel locomotives SNCB Class 70: Peter Van den Bossche from Mechelen, Belgium· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 3. SNCB Class 70: Peter Van den Bossche from Mechelen, Belgium· CC BY-SA 2.0
what is it?
Class 270 (later reclassified as Class 70) locomotives were the first diesel shunters used by NMBS/SNCB. Three were initially ordered as prototypes of diesel-electric traction. Three diesel-hydraulic Class 271 locomotives were also ordered for comparison. One loco, 7005, has been preserved by PFT at Saint Ghislain; the others were scrapped after being replaced by class 77s.
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 72 years ago, in 1954.
- 570 kW is about 7 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 14 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 12.2 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1954
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 6
- kind
- Diesel-Electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇧🇪 Belgium
- builders
- Ateliers de Constructions Electriques de Charleroi, Baume & Marpent
- operators
- SNCB/NMBS
- top speed
- 50 km/h
- power
- 570 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Bo′Bo′
- length
- 12.2 m
- weight
- 85 t
- Dutch name
- HLR 70
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1254312, Wikipedia: Belgian Railways Class 70 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.