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PKP class SP45
🇵🇱 Poland ·built by H. Cegielski – Poznań· from 1970· class of 268 Polish diesel-electric locomotives
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- 1. 25.03.94 Leszno SP45-205 (14389697063): Phil Richards from London, UK· CC BY-SA 2.0
what is it?
SP45 (prototype 301Da, current type 301Db, Lebanese type 301Dc) is a Polish standard gauge mainline passenger diesel locomotive built by H. Cegielski in Poznań from 1970 to 1976, they were intended for operating express and local trains on non-electrified railway lines around Poland. The third locomotive type 301Dc was built for Lebanese Railways in Lebanon.
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 56 years ago, in 1970.
- 1.3 MW is about 15 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 17 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 19 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 29 years (1970–1999).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1970–1976
- in service from
- 1970
- retired
- 1999
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 268
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇵🇱 Poland
- builders
- H. Cegielski – Poznań
- operators
- Polish State Railways
- top speed
- 120 km/h
- power
- 1.3 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co′Co′
- length
- 19 m
- weight
- 102 t
- nicknames
- Fiat
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q11057586, Wikipedia: PKP class SP45 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.