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China Railways BJ
🇨🇳 China ·built by CRRC Beijing Locomotive Co., Ltd.· from 1970· diesel locomotive
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Beijing Diesel locomotive 1002: 桂段· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. BJ3248 at Nanpiao: Poeloq· CC BY 3.0
what is it?
The Beijing (Chinese: 北京; pinyin: Běijīng), mostly referred to as BJ, is a diesel-hydraulic locomotive used in the People's Republic of China. It is named after the capital city of China, Beijing. BJ were made in two different versions, a standard version and a kou'an (port) version.
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 56 years ago, in 1970.
- 2 MW is about 23 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 15 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 15.1 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1970–1991
- number built
- 374
- kind
- Diesel-hydraulic
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇨🇳 China
- builders
- CRRC Beijing Locomotive Co., Ltd.
- operators
- China State Railway Group, Korean State Railway, Ministry of Railways of the People's Republic of China
- top speed
- 120 km/h
- power
- 2 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- B-B
- length
- 15.1 m
- weight
- 92 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q657474, Wikipedia: China Railways BJ (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.