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CP Class 1550
🇨🇦 Canada ·built by Montreal Locomotive Works· from 1973· class of 20 Portuguese diesel-electric locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. CP 1550 Series locomotive in Tunes Train Station, Portugal - 20080416: Gunnar1m .· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The Série 1550 are a series of 19 diesel-electric locomotives built for the Portuguese Railways (CP). They entered service in 1973; they were built in Canada by the Montreal Locomotive Works (MLW). The locomotives are MLW's type MX 620 design.
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 53 years ago, in 1973.
- 17.9 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
- 1973
- in service from
- 1973
- number built
- 20
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇨🇦 Canada
- builders
- Montreal Locomotive Works
- operators
- Comboios de Portugal
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,668 mm Iberian broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- co'co'
- length
- 17.9 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q598669, Wikipedia: CP Class 1550 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.