#3980· RENFE serie 353
Renfe Class 353
🇩🇪 Germany ·built by KraussMaffei· from 1968· class of 5 Spanish diesel-hydraulic locomotives for Talgo service
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. RN353-001a: Jean-Pierre Vergez-Larrouy· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. Renfe Class 353 and 354 at the Catalan Railway Museum, 01.08.2015: Liberaler Humanist· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The Renfe Class 353, formerly known as the T-3000 are a class of diesel-hydraulic locomotives built by Krauss-Maffei for express trains in Spain.
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 58 years ago, in 1968.
- Top speed is 1.4× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 13 minutes.
- 2.2 MW is about 26 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 15 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 19 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 35 years (1968–2003).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1968–1969
- in service from
- 1968
- retired
- 2003
- status
- retired
- number built
- 5
- kind
- Diesel-hydraulic
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- builders
- KraussMaffei
- operators
- Renfe Operadora, Red Nacional de los Ferrocarriles Españoles
- top speed
- 180 km/h
- power
- 2.2 MW
- gauge
- 1,668 mm Iberian broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- B'B'
- length
- 19 m
- weight
- 88 t
- Dutch name
- RENFE serie 353
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q850615, Wikipedia: Renfe Class 353 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.