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Sri Lanka Railways M4
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka ·built by Montreal Locomotive Works· from 1975· class of diesel-electric locomotive
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2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. SL Colombo asv2020-01 img37 Maradana station: A.Savin· FAL
- 2. SRI LANKAN RAILWAYS M4 CLASS LOCO POSITIONING AT GALLE STATION SRI LANKA JAN 2013 (8493785375): calflier001· CC BY-SA 2.0
what is it?
The Sri Lanka Railways M4 is a class of diesel-electric locomotive manufactured in Canada by Montreal Locomotive Works. Fourteen of the manufacturers' model MX-620 were imported in 1975. This was the longest locomotive in the Sri Lanka Railways previously.
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 51 years ago, in 1975.
- 1.3 MW is about 15 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- 17.7 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
- 1975
- in service from
- 1975
- number built
- 14
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
- builders
- Montreal Locomotive Works
- operators
- Sri Lanka Railways
- top speed
- 104 km/h
- power
- 1.3 MW
- gauge
- 1,676 mm Indian broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co′Co′
- length
- 17.7 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7585951, Wikipedia: Sri Lanka Railways M4 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.