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what is it?
The Turkish State Railways (TCDD) 2201 Class was a class of 0-4-0ST steam locomotives. They were built by Sharp, Stewart and Company of Manchester, England for the Ottoman Railway Company and were later taken over by TCDD. The four examples in this class were numbered 36–39, later 2201–2204. The first arrived in 1889.
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 137 years ago, in 1889.
- Weighs about as much as 5 African elephants (~6 t each).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1889
- status
- retired
- number built
- 4
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Sharp, Stewart and Company
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 0-4-0ST
- weight
- 31 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q30641690, Wikipedia: TCDD 2201 Class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.