#3261· VR Hr 11
VR Class Hr11
🇫🇮 Finland ·built by Valmet· from 1955· class of 5 Finnish diesel-hydraulic locomotives
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Hr11 1953: Tapio Muurinen· Public domain
- 2. Hr11 pikajuna Salo: Pekka Viitamäki· Public domain
what is it?
The VR Class Hr11 was the first class of line-haul diesel locomotives used by Valtionrautatiet (Finnish State Railways). Only five units were built, all delivered by Valmet in 1955. The Maybach diesel engines used in the locomotives proved highly unreliable, resulting in a complete overhaul of the engine-transmission system in 1956–58, but this did not solve all of the reliability problems.
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 71 years ago, in 1955.
- 447 kW is about 5 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 11 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 15.4 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 17 years (1955–1972).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1955
- in service from
- 1955
- retired
- 1972
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 5
- kind
- Diesel-hydraulic
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇫🇮 Finland
- builders
- Valmet
- operators
- VR Group
- top speed
- 120 km/h
- power
- 447 kW
- gauge
- 1,524 mm Russian broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- B′B′
- length
- 15.4 m
- weight
- 66.5 t
- Dutch name
- VR Hr 11
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q2522230, Wikipedia: VR Class Hr11 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.