what is it?
Sri Lanka Railways S14 is a class of diesel-electric trainsets with locomotive-like power cars, built for Sri Lanka Railways by CRRC Qingdao Sifang, China and financed by a Chinese sovereign loan. Nine of these train sets were imported to Sri Lanka from 2019 to 2020. They possess air-conditioned first class along with second class and third class accommodations.
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
- Weighs about as much as 12 African elephants (~6 t each).
- Seats 400: 8 full city buses (~50 seats each).
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- —
- number built
- 9
- kind
- diesel-electric trainset with power cars
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
- builders
- CRRC Qingdao Sifang Co., Ltd.
- operators
- Sri Lanka Railways
- top speed
- 120 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,676 mm Indian broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Bo-Bo
- formation
- 2 Power Cars + 7 Intermediate Coaches
- weight
- 74 t
- capacity
- 400 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q131919915, Wikipedia: Sri Lanka Railways S14 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.