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- 1. TCDD DH7007 at Sirkeci: Alasdair McLellan· Public domain
what is it?
LDH70 are a type of diesel-hydraulic locomotive adapted from the TCDD DH7000. LDH 70 units are primarily used in shunting and slow moving freight operations.
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 32 years ago, in 1994.
- Weighs about as much as 8 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 11.5 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1994–2016
- number built
- 5
- kind
- Diesel-hydraulic
- traction
- diesel
- builders
- Tülomsaş
- operators
- Raykent Lojistik
- top speed
- 70 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- B'B'
- length
- 11.5 m
- weight
- 47 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q56291151, Wikipedia: Raykent LDH70 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.