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Israel Railways JT 42BW
🇪🇸 Spain ·built by Stadler Rail Valencia· from 1996· class of Israeli diesel-electric locomotive
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Diesel Locomotive Alstom Heifa: Alexander Lysyi· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. JT42BW1: Golf Bravo· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The JT 42BW is a class of four axle Bo'Bo' diesel electric locomotives manufactured by Alstom's (previously by Vossloh and now by Stadler.) Meinfesa plant in Spain for Israel Railways (IR). The locomotives were the primary passenger locomotive unit used by IR through the 2000s.
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 30 years ago, in 1996.
- Top speed is 1.1× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- 2.2 MW is about 26 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 15 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 20.5 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1996–2006
- in service from
- 1996
- number built
- 48
- kind
- Diesel
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇪🇸 Spain
- builders
- Stadler Rail Valencia
- operators
- Israel Railways
- top speed
- 140 km/h
- power
- 2.2 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Bo'Bo'
- length
- 20.5 m
- weight
- 90 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
family
Sources: Wikidata Q6087160, Wikipedia: Israel Railways JT 42BW (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.