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IranRunner
🇮🇷 Iran ·built by Mapna Locomotive Engineering and Manufacturing Company· from 2009· locomotive
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. IRIR ER24PC 1579 at Tehran, Iran: Kabelleger / David Gubler· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The IranRunner, also known as the ER24PC and Iran Safir, is a single cab diesel electric passenger locomotive manufactured by the Mapna Locomotive Engineering and Manufacturing Company and Siemens.
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 17 years ago, in 2009.
- Top speed is 1.2× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 15 minutes.
- 2.4 MW is about 28 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 14 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 18.6 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
- 2009–2013
- number built
- 150
- kind
- diesel electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇮🇷 Iran
- builders
- Mapna Locomotive Engineering and Manufacturing Company, Siemens
- operators
- Islamic Republic of Iran Railways
- top speed
- 160 km/h
- power
- 2.4 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Bo´Bo´
- length
- 18.6 m
- weight
- 85.5 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
family
Sources: Wikidata Q946775, Wikipedia: IranRunner (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.