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PKP class SP32
🇷🇴 Romania ·built by FAUR· from 1985· class of 150 Polish diesel-electric locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. SP32-204: Flyz1· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
SP32 is a Romanian series of diesel passenger locomotives used by PKP.
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 41 years ago, in 1985.
- 757 kW is about 9 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 12 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 16 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
- 1985–1991
- in service from
- 1985
- number built
- 152
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇷🇴 Romania
- builders
- FAUR
- operators
- Polish State Railways
- top speed
- 100 km/h
- power
- 757 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Bo′Bo′
- length
- 16 m
- weight
- 74 t
- nicknames
- Odkurzacz
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7119537, Wikipedia: PKP class SP32 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.