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NIR 1 Class
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by English Electric· from 1969· class of 3 diesel-hydraulic locomotives
what is it?
The Northern Ireland Railways DH class was a class of three diesel-hydraulic shunting locomotives obtained in 1969. All three have now been withdrawn, and two have since been rebuilt for work in Sri Lanka.
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.
- 462 kW is about 5 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 7 African elephants (~6 t each).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1969
- retired
- 1989
- status
- retired
- number built
- 3
- kind
- Diesel-hydraulic
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- English Electric, Vulcan Foundry
- operators
- NI Railways
- top speed
- 47 km/h
- power
- 462 kW
- gauge
- 1,600 mm Irish broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- C
- weight
- 42.5 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q6954365, Wikipedia: NIR 1 Class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.