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Sri Lanka Railways M2
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka ·built by General Motors Diesel· from 1954· Diesel-electric locomotive class
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Sl train: Hafiz Issadeen , Dharga Town, Sri Lanka· CC BY 2.0
what is it?
The Sri Lanka Railways M2 is a class of diesel-electric locomotive that was developed in 1954 by General Motors Diesel, Canada, and Electro-Motive Division, US for the use in Sri Lanka Railways. It is considered as one of the most successful locomotives in Sri Lanka. It is a General Motors Diesel (Canada) EMD G12 model using the EMD 567C, 1,425-horsepower (1,063 kW) engine.
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 72 years ago, in 1954.
- 1.1 MW is about 13 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 13 African elephants (~6 t each).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1954–1966
- in service from
- 1954
- number built
- 14
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
- builders
- General Motors Diesel
- operators
- Sri Lanka Railways
- top speed
- 112 km/h
- power
- 1.1 MW
- gauge
- 1,676 mm Indian broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- (A1A)(A1A)
- weight
- 79 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7585950, Wikipedia: Sri Lanka Railways M2 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.