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Yorkshire Engine Company Janus
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Yorkshire Engine Company· from 1956· shunting locomotive build by Yorkshire Engine Company
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. British Sugar shunting locomotive: Paul Miller· Attribution
what is it?
The Yorkshire Engine Company Janus is a line of 0-6-0 wheel arrangement, diesel–electric locomotives that weighed 48 long tons (49 tonnes; 54 short tons) and had a maximum speed of 23 mph (37 km/h). The two Rolls-Royce C6SFL diesel engines gave a total power output of 400 hp (300 kW). Each engine had its cooling system at the outer end, and its generator at the inner end.
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 70 years ago, in 1956.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1956–1965
- number built
- 102
- kind
- Diesel–electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Yorkshire Engine Company
- top speed
- 37 km/h
- power
- 298 kW
- wheel arrangement
- C
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q8055711, Wikipedia: Yorkshire Engine Company Janus (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.