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China Railways DF4
🇨🇳 China ·built by CRRC Ziyang Co., Ltd.· from 1969· diesel locomotive of China
10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. DF4-0127: Manfred Kopka· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. China Railways DF4B 1787 20140914 02: Changzhensky· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. China Railways DF4B 2480 20160703 04: Changzhensky· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. China Railways DF4C 4001 20111007: 颐园新居· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 5. China Railways DF4C 5127, Liuzhou Locomotive and Rolling Stock Plant, 20141019: Changzhensky· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 6. China Railways DF4DD 0289 20171124 01: Changzhensky· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 7. China Railways DF4DF 4035 20150709 02: Changzhensky· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 8. China Railways DF4DJ 0001 20191003: Alancrh· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 9. China Railways DF4D 3174 & China Railways DF4D 3265 20150725: Changzhensky· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 10. China Railways DF4D 4019 20150725: Changzhensky· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Dongfeng 4 (Chinese: 东风4) is a type of diesel–electric locomotive which is used in the People's Republic of China. The DF4 began trial production in 1969 at the Dalian Locomotive and Rolling Stock Works (CRRC Dalian), before entering batch production in July 1974. The DF4 is part of a larger series of Dongfeng electric-drive diesel locomotives, which began with the Dongfeng in 1958, and includes the subsequent models numbered DF2 through DF11.
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 57 years ago, in 1969.
- 2.7 MW is about 31 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 23 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 20 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1969–2004
- number built
- 843
- kind
- Diesel–electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇨🇳 China
- builders
- CRRC Ziyang Co., Ltd., CRRC Dalian Co., Ltd.
- operators
- China State Railway Group, Korean State Railway, Kereta Cepat Indonesia China
- top speed
- 120 km/h
- power
- 2.7 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- C-C
- length
- 20 m
- weight
- 138 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q839790, Wikipedia: China Railways DF4 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.