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Sri Lanka Railways S9
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka ·built by CRRC Qingdao Sifang Co., Ltd.· from 2000· class of diesel multiple unit
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. S9loco: Hafiz Issadeen , Dharga Town, Sri Lanka· CC BY 2.0
what is it?
Sri Lanka Railways S9 is a class of diesel-electric multiple unit (DEMU) train sets operated by Sri Lanka's state run rail operator, Sri Lanka Railways.
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 26 years ago, in 2000.
- 1.2 MW is about 14 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 12 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 19.8 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 2000
- in service from
- 2000
- number built
- 15
- kind
- Diesel-Electric Multiple Unit
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
- builders
- CRRC Qingdao Sifang Co., Ltd., CSR Corporation Limited
- operators
- Sri Lanka Railways
- top speed
- 100 km/h
- power
- 1.2 MW
- gauge
- 1,676 mm Indian broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- B-B
- formation
- DPC + 4 TC + DTC
- length
- 19.8 m
- weight
- 73 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q17074537, Wikipedia: Sri Lanka Railways S9 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.