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CP Class 1400
🇵🇹 Portugal ·built by Vulcan Foundry· from 1967· class of 67 Portuguese 1330hp Bo′Bo′ diesel-electric locomotives
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2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Portuguese Railways 1422 locomotive in Porto-Sao Bento Train Station: Alchimista· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. CP 1404 (9311564238): Nelso Silva· CC BY-SA 2.0
what is it?
The CP Class 1400 are a series of 67 diesel-electric locomotives built for the Portuguese Railways (CP) between 1967 and 1969. They have a top speed of 105 km/h. They were ordered primarily to replace steam locomotives then still in use on CP. Designed and engineered by English Electric, they are closely modelled mechanically on the British Rail Class 20 locomotives but using a more powerful intercooled 1,330 bhp 8CSVT version of the Class 20's 8SVT engine.
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 59 years ago, in 1967.
- 990 kW is about 12 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 11 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 12.7 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
- 1967–1969
- in service from
- 1967
- number built
- 67
- kind
- Diesel-Electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇵🇹 Portugal
- builders
- Vulcan Foundry, Sorefame, English Electric
- designer
- English Electric
- operators
- Comboios de Portugal
- top speed
- 105 km/h
- power
- 990 kW
- gauge
- 1,668 mm Iberian broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Bo - Bo
- length
- 12.7 m
- weight
- 64.4 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q2931913, Wikipedia: CP Class 1400 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.