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Renfe Class 319 (early versions)
🇪🇸 Spain ·built by Stadler Rail Valencia· from 1965· class of 103 Spanish diesel-electric locomotives
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- 1. Aut1968bn1: Fernando Monroy Peña· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The Renfe Class 319 (originally Renfe 1900) was a class of mainline medium-high powered diesel electric locomotives built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division and by Macosa (under license) for the state railways of Spain.
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 61 years ago, in 1965.
- 1.2 MW is about 14 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 19 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 19.6 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
- 1965–1973
- in service from
- 1961
- number built
- 103
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇪🇸 Spain
- builders
- Stadler Rail Valencia, Electro-Motive Diesel
- operators
- Renfe Operadora, Red Nacional de los Ferrocarriles Españoles
- top speed
- 120 km/h
- power
- 1.2 MW
- gauge
- 1,668 mm Iberian broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co'Co'
- length
- 19.6 m
- weight
- 111 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7276360, Wikipedia: Renfe Class 319 (early versions) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.