#4187· Renfe type 269
Renfe Class 269
🇪🇸 Spain ·built by Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles· from 1973· class of Spanish electric locomotives
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- 1. Doble de siderúrgico (3277411448): André Marques from Madrid· CC BY 2.0
what is it?
The Renfe Class 269 is a class of electric locomotives operated by Renfe in Spain. They were built by CAF and Macosa under license from Mitsubishi. After the turn of the millennium RENFE began to sell some, three even went to Chile.
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 53 years ago, in 1973.
- Top speed is 1.5× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 12 minutes.
- 3.1 MW is about 37 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 15 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 17.3 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
electric locomotive: Draws power from overhead wires or a third rail and pulls separate carriages.
spec sheet
- built
- 1973–1985
- number built
- 265
- kind
- Electric
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇪🇸 Spain
- builders
- Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles, Stadler Rail Valencia, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Mitsubishi Electric, Westinghouse Electric Corporation, General Electric
- operators
- Renfe Operadora, Empresa de los Ferrocarriles del Estado
- top speed
- 200 km/h
- power
- 3.1 MW
- gauge
- 1,668 mm Iberian broad gauge
- electric system
- 3000 V DC overhead catenary
- wheel arrangement
- B-B
- length
- 17.3 m
- weight
- 88 t
- Dutch name
- Renfe type 269
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1244130, Wikipedia: Renfe Class 269 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.