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Sri Lanka Railways M3
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka ·built by Sri Lanka Railways· from 1956· diesel-electric locomotive class of Sri Lanka Railways
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- 1. Sri Lanka Railways M3: Sri Lanka Railway· Public domain
what is it?
Sri Lanka Railways M3 was a class of diesel-electric locomotives introduced in 1955 by the Ceylon Government Railway (now Sri Lanka Railways) to be used on the Ceylon national rail network.
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 70 years ago, in 1956.
- Weighs about as much as 8 African elephants (~6 t each).
- Served for 46 years (1956–2002).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1956
- in service from
- 1956
- retired
- 2002
- status
- retired
- number built
- 2
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
- builders
- Sri Lanka Railways
- operators
- Sri Lanka Railways
- top speed
- 89 km/h
- power
- 134 kW
- gauge
- 1,676 mm Indian broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Bo-Bo
- weight
- 47 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q17054970, Wikipedia: Sri Lanka Railways M3 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.