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Ceylon Government Railway S1
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka ·built by English Electric· from 1936· class of diesel-electric multiple units in Ceylon/Sri Lanka
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- 1. Sri Lanka Railway - Train SLR Class S1: Unknown author Unknown author· Public domain
what is it?
Ceylon Government Railway S1 was a class of Diesel multiple unit train sets built by English Electric for the Ceylon Government Railway.
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 90 years ago, in 1936.
- Weighs about as much as 16 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 62.8 m long: about 14 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 300: 6 full city buses (~50 seats each).
- Served for 19 years (1936–1955).
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1936
- in service from
- 1936
- retired
- 1955
- status
- retired
- number built
- 3
- kind
- Diesel Multiple Unit
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
- builders
- English Electric
- operators
- Sri Lanka Railways
- top speed
- 88 km/h
- power
- 134 kW
- gauge
- 1,676 mm Indian broad gauge
- electric system
- No
- wheel arrangement
- Bo-2+Bo-2+2-Bo+2-Bo
- length
- 62.8 m
- weight
- 96.2 t
- capacity
- 300 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q18386148, Wikipedia: Ceylon Government Railway S1 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.