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what is it?
The Stadler Euro (known as the Vossloh Euro until 2015) is a class of diesel-electric locomotives built by Stadler Rail for the European market. It is available in two basic variants, the four-axle Euro 3000, and the six-axle Euro 4000. These locomotives are powered by EMD 710 prime movers.
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 20 years ago, in 2006.
- 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.
- 3.2 MW is about 37 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 14 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 21.5 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
- 2006
- in service from
- 2006
- number built
- 148
- kind
- Diesel
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇮🇱 Israel
- builders
- Vossloh, Stadler Rail Valencia
- operators
- Israel Railways, Europorte
- top speed
- 200 km/h
- power
- 3.2 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 3000 series: Bo′Bo′
- length
- 21.5 m
- weight
- 85 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1184937, Wikipedia: Stadler Euro (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.