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Renfe Class 354
🇩🇪 Germany ·built by KraussMaffei· from 1983· class of 8 Spanish diesel-hydraulic locomotives of Talgo service
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Locomotive Talgo 354-001 at swing bridge of Museu del Ferrocarril de Catalunya: BiblioRSO· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. Bf La Coruña, 354 003 »Virgen de la Encarnación«: Falk2· CC BY 3.0
what is it?
The Renfe Class 354 was a series of eight diesel hydraulic locomotives manufactured by Krauss-Maffei in Germany specifically to pull Talgo pendular coaches, which were introduced shortly before the acquisition of these machines. The appearance and design is very similar to the Renfe Class 353, but with improvements; specifically in terms of installed power.
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 43 years ago, in 1983.
- Top speed is 1.5× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 12 minutes.
- 3.1 MW is about 36 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 13 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 19.9 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
- 1983–1984
- in service from
- 1983
- number built
- 8
- kind
- Diesel-hydraulic
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- builders
- KraussMaffei
- designer
- Krauss-Maffei
- operators
- Renfe Operadora, Red Nacional de los Ferrocarriles Españoles
- top speed
- 201 km/h
- power
- 3.1 MW
- gauge
- 1,668 mm Iberian broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- B'B'
- length
- 19.9 m
- weight
- 80 t
- nicknames
- Talgas
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q825334, Wikipedia: Renfe Class 354 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.