#5338
Renfe Class 334
🇪🇸 Spain ·built by Stadler Rail Valencia· from 2004· Spanish diesel-locomotive class
10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. SERIE334ALC: Hanspore· CC BY 3.0
- 2. RENFE 334 011 Moreda: Kabelleger / David Gubler· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. RENFE 334 018 Campillos: Kabelleger / David Gubler· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. RENFE 334 020 Calasparra: Kabelleger / David Gubler· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. RENFE 334 025 Benalúa de Guadix: Kabelleger· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 6. Renfe 334 028 Aldea del Cano: Kabelleger / David Gubler· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 7. Renfe 334 Benalúa de Guadix - Huélago: Kabelleger / David Gubler· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 8. RENFE 334 with IC 197 Casar - Rio Tajo: Kabelleger / David Gubler· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 9. RENFE 334 with IC 197 Rio Tajo: Kabelleger / David Gubler· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 10. Renfe 334+9000: Marcos Maté Luna (Ordunte en Tranvia.org)· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The Renfe 334 is a high speed, 4 axle diesel-electric locomotive built to haul passenger trains on Renfe's Talgo service on non electrified lines.
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 22 years ago, in 2004.
- Top speed is 1.5× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 12 minutes.
- Weighs about as much as 13 African elephants (~6 t each).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 2004–2008
- in service from
- 2006
- number built
- 28
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇪🇸 Spain
- builders
- Stadler Rail Valencia, Vossloh
- designer
- Renfe / Alstom
- operators
- Renfe Operadora
- top speed
- 201 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,668 mm Iberian broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Bo′Bo′
- weight
- 80 t
- nicknames
- Caracoles, Caracoles de carreras (Snails, Racing snails)
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q820678, Wikipedia: Renfe Class 334 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.