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Sri Lanka Railways M11
🇮🇳 India ·built by Banaras Locomotive Works· from 2018· class of 10 diesel-electric locomotives
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- 1. Sri Lanka Railways class M11 - 951 diesel electric locomotive: Dilshan· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
Class M11 is a mainline diesel-electric locomotive built by Banaras Locomotive Works, India, for use on Sri Lanka Railways and first delivered in 2018. This locomotive, clearly with its look, was developed from the WDG-4D (EMD JT46ACe) locomotive of the Indian Railways, which is originally of 4500 hp (3.4 MW), as it uses a 16-cylinder variant of the EMD 710 prime mover. The HP was derated to 3200 hp (2.38 MW) using a 12-cylinder variant of the same engine, making it similar to British/European Railways' popular Class 66 (EMD JT42CWR/M) locomotive, but with AC-AC traction (EMD JT42ACe) The completed units are delivered by road trailer from Varanasi to the port of Chennai, before shipment to Sri Lanka.
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 8 years ago, in 2018.
- 2.4 MW is about 28 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 20 African elephants (~6 t each).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 2018–2019
- status
- in service
- number built
- 10
- kind
- Diesel Electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇮🇳 India
- builders
- Banaras Locomotive Works
- operators
- Sri Lanka Railways
- top speed
- 120 km/h
- power
- 2.4 MW
- gauge
- 1,676 mm Indian broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co'Co'
- weight
- 120 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q101402319, Wikipedia: Sri Lanka Railways M11 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.