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Renfe Class 309
🇪🇸 Spain ·built by La Maquinista Terrestre y Maritima· from 1986· class of 20 Spanish diesel-hydraulic locomotives
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. RN309-014: Jean-Pierre Vergez-Larrouy· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. RN309-005: JP Vergez-Larrouy· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The Renfe Class 309 is a class of 20 three axle diesel–hydraulic locomotives shunters built by M.T.M. for Renfe, and introduced between 1986–7.
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 40 years ago, in 1986.
- 385 kW is about 5 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 9 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 10 m long: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1986–1987
- in service from
- 1986
- number built
- 20
- kind
- Diesel–hydraulic
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇪🇸 Spain
- builders
- La Maquinista Terrestre y Maritima
- operators
- Renfe Operadora, Red Nacional de los Ferrocarriles Españoles
- top speed
- 50 km/h
- power
- 385 kW
- gauge
- 1,668 mm Iberian broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- C
- length
- 10 m
- weight
- 54 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q2736163, Wikipedia: Renfe Class 309 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.