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Sri Lanka Railways M7
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka ·built by Brush Traction· from 1981· class of 15 Sri Lanka diesel-electric locomotives
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2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. SRI LANKAN RAILWAYS CLASS M7 LOCO HAULED TRAIN AT GALLE STATION SRI LANKA JAN 2013 (8553523801): calflier001· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 2. M7 class: Hafiz Issadeen , Dharga Town, Sri Lanka· CC BY 2.0
what is it?
Class M7 is a type of diesel-electric locomotive built for Sri Lanka Railways by Brush Traction, UK, and imported in 1981. This locomotive has the shortest length, least power and least weight compared to other diesel locomotives of 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 45 years ago, in 1981.
- 741 kW is about 9 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 11 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 12.8 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- Still in service after 45 years.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1981
- in service from
- 1981
- status
- in service
- number built
- 16
- kind
- Diesel
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
- builders
- Brush Traction
- operators
- Sri Lanka Railways
- top speed
- 80 km/h
- power
- 741 kW
- gauge
- 1,676 mm Indian broad gauge
- length
- 12.8 m
- weight
- 66 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q17074526, Wikipedia: Sri Lanka Railways M7 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.