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what is it?
SP47 was a code name for a Polish diesel locomotive, designed for passenger transport. It never reached serial production.
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 51 years ago, in 1975.
- Top speed is 1.1× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- 2.2 MW is about 26 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 19 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 20.2 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
- 1975–1977
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 2
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇵🇱 Poland
- builders
- H. Cegielski – Poznań
- operators
- Polish State Railways
- top speed
- 140 km/h
- power
- 2.2 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co′Co′
- length
- 20.2 m
- weight
- 114 t
- nicknames
- Długa Suka
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q253679, Wikipedia: PKP class SP47 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.