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CP Class 5600
🇵🇹 Portugal ·built by Sorefame· from 1993· class of 30 Portuguese electric locomotives
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2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. CP 5603 + IC train Gare do Oriente, 2008 (01): Bahnfrend· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. CP 5603 (20881067670): Nelso Silva· CC BY-SA 2.0
what is it?
Class 5600 are a series of electric locomotives built by Siemens in association with Sorefame of Portugal for Comboios de Portugal, the state owned railway company of Portugal.
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 33 years ago, in 1993.
- Top speed is 1.7× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 11 minutes.
- 5.6 MW is about 66 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 14 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 19.6 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Still in service after 33 years.
electric locomotive: Draws power from overhead wires or a third rail and pulls separate carriages.
spec sheet
- built
- 1993–1995
- in service from
- 1993
- status
- in service
- number built
- 30
- kind
- Electric
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇵🇹 Portugal
- builders
- Sorefame, Siemens Mobility, KraussMaffei
- operators
- Comboios de Portugal
- top speed
- 220 km/h
- power
- 5.6 MW
- gauge
- 1,668 mm Iberian broad gauge
- electric system
- 25 kV 50 Hz AC Catenary
- wheel arrangement
- Bo′Bo′
- length
- 19.6 m
- weight
- 86 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q856403, Wikipedia: CP Class 5600 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.