Nigerian Railways 1001 class

what is it?

The 1001 class were a class of ten diesel-electric locomotive built by English Electric and Vulcan Foundry in 1955 for Nigerian Railways. The locomotives were similar to fourteen locomotives supplied to the Gold Coast Railways (later Ghana Railways) in 1955, as their first diesel-electric locomotives, and a further twelve similar locomotives were ordered by the Ghana Railway and Harbour Administration in 1958. The construction and layout of the locomotives was very similar to the earlier NZR DE class.

who runs it

base stats

• speed 88 km/htop speed
• power 559 kWpower output
• built 24made in total

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 71 years ago, in 1955.
• 🚗559 kW is about 7 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
• 📏10.7 m long: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.

diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).

spec sheet

built

1955

in service from

1955

status

retired

number built

24

kind

Diesel-electric

traction

diesel

origin

🇳🇬 Nigeria

builders

English Electric, Vulcan Foundry

operators

Nigerian Railway Corporation

top speed

88 km/h

power

559 kW

gauge

1,067 mm Cape gauge

length

10.7 m

From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.