#4274
CIÉ 071 Class
🇺🇸 United States ·built by General Motors Diesel· from 1976· class of American-built diesel-electric locomotives in the Republic of Ireland
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. 073 June 1995 Drogheda County Louth - Flickr - D464-Darren Hall: D464-Darren Hall· CC BY 2.0
- 2. Rathmore: None provided· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Córas Iompair Éireann/Iarnród Éireann 071 Class or Northern Ireland Railways 110 Class or Serbian Railways JŽ series 666 is a General Motors Electro-Motive Division EMD JT22CW series diesel–electric locomotive used in the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and Serbia.
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 50 years ago, in 1976.
- Top speed is 1.1× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- 1.8 MW is about 21 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 17 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 17.4 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
- 1976–1984
- number built
- 18
- kind
- Diesel–electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- General Motors, Electro-Motive Diesel
- operators
- Iarnród Éireann—Irish Rail, NI Railways, Serbian Railways, Córas Iompair Éireann
- top speed
- 145 km/h
- power
- 1.8 MW
- gauge
- 1,600 mm Irish broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co′Co′
- length
- 17.4 m
- weight
- 101 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q4035623, Wikipedia: CIÉ 071 Class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.