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Sri Lanka Railways M5
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka ·built by Hitachi· from 1979· type of person diesel-electric locomotive
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. M5class: Hafiz Issadeen , Dharga Town, Sri Lanka· CC BY 2.0
what is it?
The Sri Lanka Railways Class M5 is a type of diesel-electric locomotive. The class was ordered to strengthen the diesel locomotive fleet of Sri Lanka Railways. The Class M5 became a familiar sight on Main Line of SLR. They performed on Sri Lanka's railroad for few years.
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 47 years ago, in 1979.
- 1.2 MW is about 14 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 11 African elephants (~6 t each).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1979
- number built
- 16
- kind
- Diesel
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
- builders
- Hitachi
- operators
- Sri Lanka Railways
- top speed
- 97 km/h
- power
- 1.2 MW
- gauge
- 1,676 mm Indian broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Bo'Bo'
- weight
- 66 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q17074515, Wikipedia: Sri Lanka Railways M5 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.