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- 1. GE 45-Ton Switcher at MSU's T. B. Simon Power Plant: Michael P. Kube-McDowell· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The class WDS-1 was a diesel-electric locomotive used by Indian Railways for shunting and carrying out departmental works. The model's name stands for broad gauge (W), Diesel (D), Shunting (S) 1st generation (1). The WDS-1 is used mostly in the Northern Railway Zone (NR).
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 82 years ago, in 1944.
- 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
- 1944–1945
- in service from
- 1944
- status
- retired
- number built
- 15
- kind
- Diesel
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇮🇳 India
- builders
- General Electric
- operators
- Indian Railways
- top speed
- 56 km/h
- power
- 288 kW
- gauge
- 1,676 mm Indian broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Bo′Bo′
- weight
- 41 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q96382103, Wikipedia: Indian locomotive class WDS-1 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.