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SJ Tp
🇸🇪 Sweden ·built by Maschinenbau Kiel· from 1953· class of 25 Swedish narrow-gauge 1'C1'dh locomotives
what is it?
Tp was a diesel-hydraulic locomotive operated by Swedish State Railways (Swedish: Statens Järnvägar, SJ) for hauling freight trains on its 891 mm (2 ft 11+3⁄32 in) narrow gauge railways. 25 were built in total, 20 by Maschinenbau Kiel and five on licence by Svenska Järnvägsverkstäderna (The Swedish Railway Workshops). During the 1960s most of the narrow gauge railways were converted to standard gauge, and SJ chose to rebuild the locomotives to this gauge, and also change the axle system to D, giving them the designation T23.
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 73 years ago, in 1953.
- 550 kW is about 6 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 8 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 10.7 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
- 1953–1954
- in service from
- 1954
- number built
- 25
- kind
- Diesel-hydraulic
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇸🇪 Sweden
- builders
- Maschinenbau Kiel, Svenska Järnvägsverkstäderna
- operators
- Statens Järnvägar
- top speed
- 80 km/h
- power
- 550 kW
- gauge
- 891 mm narrow gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 1'C1' (Tp)
- length
- 10.7 m
- weight
- 46 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q256475, Wikipedia: SJ Tp (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.