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PKP class SU45
🇵🇱 Poland ·built by H. Cegielski – Poznań· from 1988· Polish diesel locomotive class
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6 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. SU45-079 in Wrocław Główny: 7Jamata7· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. SU45-010: Przemysław Żywicki· CC0
- 3. 12.09.95 Czerwony Bór SU45-190 (49884239416): Phil Richards from London, UK· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 4. SU45-079 + R 77744 relacji Poznań Gł. - Leszno (6997530633): Chris from Poznań, Poland· CC BY 2.0
- 5. SU45-213-Braniewo-poc Kaliningrad: Krzysztof Maria Różański, ( Upior polnocy )· CC BY-SA 2.5
- 6. Su45-089: KOS kol8· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
SU45 (prototype 301D, current type 301Db) is a Polish class of main mixed traffic diesel electric locomotives converted from SP45 for operating passenger and freight trains in Poland. Built from 1970 to 1976 by H. Cegielski in Poznań as the passenger version classified SP45, they were later converted to mixed traffic by ZNTK Poznań. SU45 locomotives were one of the most popular locomotive series throughout Poland associated with Polish national railway.
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 38 years ago, in 1988.
- 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.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1988–1997
- retired
- 2016
- status
- in service
- number built
- 191
- 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 Q1414015, Wikipedia: PKP class SU45 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.