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IÉ 201 Class
🇨🇦 Canada ·built by General Motors Diesel· from 1994· class of Canadian-built diesel-electric locomotives in Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland
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5 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Balmoral railway station in 2007: Aubrey Dale· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 2. Belfast Central (2): None provided· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. IE 201 Class Belmond Grand Hibernian Livery Kent Station: Jack Harold· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. Iarnrod Eireann Class 201: Photo by Keith Edkins.· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 5. IÉ Class 201 no. 233: WakefulNI· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Iarnród Éireann (IÉ) / Northern Ireland Railways 201 Class locomotives are the newest and most powerful diesel locomotives operating in Ireland and were built between 1994 and 1995 by General Motors Diesel. They are model type JT42HCW, fitted with an EMD 12-710G3B engine of 3,200 hp (2,400 kW), weigh 109 tonnes (107.3 long tons; 120.2 short tons) and have a maximum speed of 100 mph (160 km/h).
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 32 years ago, in 1994.
- Top speed is 1.2× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 15 minutes.
- 2.4 MW is about 28 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 18 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 21 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1994–1995
- number built
- 34
- kind
- Diesel–electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇨🇦 Canada
- builders
- General Motors Diesel
- operators
- Iarnród Éireann—Irish Rail, NI Railways
- top speed
- 161 km/h
- power
- 2.4 MW
- gauge
- 1,600 mm Irish broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co′Co′
- length
- 21 m
- weight
- 109 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5970588, Wikipedia: IÉ 201 Class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.