#2955
CIÉ 113 Class
🇮🇪 Ireland ·built by Córas Iompair Éireann· from 1950· class of two Irish-built diesel electric locomotives
3 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Cultra 1: Milepost98· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. CIÉ 113 Class No. B113 at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum - August 2014: Reading Tom· CC BY 2.0
- 3. Ulster Transport Museum, Cultra, Railway Gallery 15: NearEMPTiness· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Córas Iompair Éireann 113 class locomotives were the first mainline diesel locomotives used in Ireland, being built in January 1950 and October 1951 by CIÉ at their Inchicore Works. They were fitted with Sulzer 6LDA28 engines of 915 hp (682 kW) (uprated to 960 hp or 720 kW in 1956), with four Metropolitan-Vickers MV157 traction motors. They were of Bo-Bo wheel arrangement, weighed 80 tonnes and had a maximum speed of 90 km/h (56 mph).
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 76 years ago, in 1950.
- 716 kW is about 8 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 14 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 14.5 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 24 years (1950–1974).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1950–1951
- in service from
- 1950
- retired
- 1974
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 2
- kind
- Diesel–electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇮🇪 Ireland
- builders
- Córas Iompair Éireann, Inchicore Works
- operators
- Córas Iompair Éireann
- top speed
- 88 km/h
- power
- 716 kW
- gauge
- 1,600 mm Irish broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Bo′Bo′
- length
- 14.5 m
- weight
- 81 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5011644, Wikipedia: CIÉ 113 Class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.