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CP Class 1800
🇵🇹 Portugal ·built by English Electric· from 1968· class of 10 Portuguese Co′Co′ diesel-electric locomotives
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2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. CP 1805 (20882375339): Nelso Silva· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 2. CP 1800 (12859619005): André Marques from Madrid· CC BY 2.0
what is it?
The Série 1800 was a class of 10 diesel-electric locomotives built for the Portuguese Railways (CP) in 1968. Designed and engineered by English Electric, they were closely modelled on the British Rail Class 50 locomotives but built for CP's 1,668 mm (5 ft 5+21⁄32 in) Iberian gauge and larger loading gauge than possible in Great Britain. Like the British Rail Class 50s, they were equipped with an English Electric 16 CSVT engine and produced 2700 hp.
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 58 years ago, in 1968.
- Top speed is 1.1× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- 2 MW is about 24 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1968
- retired
- 2001
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 10
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇵🇹 Portugal
- builders
- English Electric
- designer
- English Electric
- operators
- Comboios de Portugal
- top speed
- 140 km/h
- power
- 2 MW
- gauge
- 1,668 mm Iberian broad gauge
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q2931916, Wikipedia: CP Class 1800 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.