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Half Janus
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Yorkshire Engine Company· from 1956· shunting Locomotive
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Yorkshire Engine Company Half Janus, works number '2872', Loco Number '1382' on an Appleby Frodingham Railway Preservation Society Scunthorpe Steelworks Tour: Jordyjordangames· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Yorkshire Engine Company Half Janus is a 0-6-0 wheel arrangement, diesel electric shunting locomotive which weighs 31 long tons with a maximum speed of 20 mph. The Half Janus was built by the Yorkshire Engine Company in Sheffield between 1956 and 1965. Each locomotive was built (out of the factory) with one Rolls-Royce C6SFL 200 or 220 hp (150 or 160 kW) engine which was paired with one generator to power the British Thomson-Houston traction motor mounted to the wheel set at the back of the locomotive under the cab.
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
- —
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Yorkshire Engine Company
- top speed
- 32 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 0-6-0
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q24993980, Wikipedia: Half Janus (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.