#3285
CP Class 2500
🇵🇹 Portugal ·built by Henschel & Sohn· from 1956· class of 15 Portuguese electric locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Portuguese locomotive type 2500: Nuno Morão from Portugal· CC BY-SA 2.0
what is it?
Série 2500 were the first 15 electric locomotives built for the Portuguese Railways (CP). They entered service in 1956, for the newly electrified 25 kV line running north from Lisbon. They had a maximum speed of 120 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 70 years ago, in 1956.
- 2.1 MW is about 24 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 12 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 15.4 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
electric locomotive: Draws power from overhead wires or a third rail and pulls separate carriages.
spec sheet
- built
- 1956–1957
- retired
- 2009
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 15
- kind
- Electric
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇵🇹 Portugal
- builders
- Henschel & Sohn, Alstom, Sorefame, 50 c/s Group
- operators
- Comboios de Portugal
- top speed
- 120 km/h
- power
- 2.1 MW
- gauge
- 1,668 mm Iberian broad gauge
- electric system
- 25 kV 50 Hz AC Catenary
- wheel arrangement
- Bo-Bo
- length
- 15.4 m
- weight
- 72 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q852993, Wikipedia: CP Class 2500 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.