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Corus Trojan locomotive
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Corus Northern Engineering Services· from 2009· Heavy shunting diesel locomotive
what is it?
The Corus Trojan is a type of heavy shunting industrial diesel locomotive designed and manufactured by Corus Northern Engineering Services in Scunthorpe, UK in 2007–2009, and re-manufactured by the Hunslet Engine Company from 2011 due to design flaws.
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 17 years ago, in 2009.
- 708 kW is about 8 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 17 African elephants (~6 t each).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 2009
- number built
- 4
- kind
- Diesel
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Corus Northern Engineering Services
- top speed
- 24 km/h
- power
- 708 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- B'B'
- weight
- 100 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5173420, Wikipedia: Corus Trojan locomotive (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.