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TCDD DE24000
🇹🇷 Turkey ·built by Matériel de Traction Electrique· from 1970· class of 418 Turkish diesel locomotives
3 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. DE24298 2025: Kayra· CC BY 4.0
- 2. Regional crossing Bridge 98: B'Tian Dorsam· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3. TCDD DE24000 @ Halkalı 2023: Zach1055· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
TCDD DE 24000 (stylised as DE 24 000 in painted registration numbers) is a type of diesel locomotive built for operations on Turkish State Railways (TCDD) by Tülomsaş. 430 units were built between 1970 and 1984 under license from Matériel de Traction Electrique (MTE) of France. The DE 24000 formed the backbone of the dieselisation of the Turkish railways during the 1970s.
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 56 years ago, in 1970.
- Top speed is 1.1× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Weighs about as much as 19 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 22.7 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1970–1984
- in service from
- 1970
- number built
- 418
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇹🇷 Turkey
- builders
- Matériel de Traction Electrique, TÜLOMSAŞ
- designer
- Matériel de Traction Electrique, modified vastly
- operators
- TCDD Taşımacılık, Turkish State Railways
- top speed
- 144 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co'Co'
- length
- 22.7 m
- weight
- 113 t
- nicknames
- "Mavi lokomotif" (blue locomotive-ones with blue livery) , Yirmidörtbinlik (24000ths)
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q585360, Wikipedia: TCDD DE24000 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.