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Sri Lanka Railways W2
🇩🇪 East Germany ·built by LEW Hennigsdorf· from 1969· class of diesel-hydraulic locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. W2loco: Hafiz Issadeen , Dharga Town, Sri Lanka· CC BY 2.0
what is it?
The Sri Lanka Railways W2 is a class of diesel-hydraulic locomotives built by LEW Hennigsdorf for Sri Lanka Railways.
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 57 years ago, in 1969.
- 1.1 MW is about 13 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 11 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 13.7 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 3 years (1969–1972).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1969
- in service from
- 1969
- retired
- 1972
- status
- in service
- number built
- 15
- kind
- Diesel
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇩🇪 East Germany
- builders
- LEW Hennigsdorf
- operators
- Sri Lanka Railways
- top speed
- 80 km/h
- power
- 1.1 MW
- gauge
- 1,676 mm Indian broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- B′B′
- length
- 13.7 m
- weight
- 65 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q17076250, Wikipedia: Sri Lanka Railways W2 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.