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Eurotunnel Class 9
The locomotives that haul the Channel Tunnel's Shuttles, one at each end of every train. Each has one main cab and runs on three two-axle bogies.
Scale
72 ft 2 in (22 m) over couplers
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The Class 9s haul the Shuttles through the Channel Tunnel, one at each end. The Channel Tunnel →
- Type
- Electric locomotive (25 kV AC), Bo-Bo-Bo
- In service
- since 1994
- Operators
- LeShuttle
- Formation
- A single locomotive, 72 ft (22 m) long, on three two-axle bogies; one at each end of every Shuttle
- Trains in fleet
- 58 (Wikipedia gives 57 in one place and 58 in another)
- Fleets
- LeShuttle: 58
- Top speed
- 99 mph (160 km/h)
- Power
- 25 kV AC overhead · how it works
- Bogies
- the Eurotunnel Class 9's two-axle bogies, three to a locomotive
- Train length
- 72 ft (22.00 m)
- Car height
- 13 ft 9 in (4.19 m)
- Car width
- 9 ft 9 in (2.97 m)
- Profile
- main-line
- Status
- In service with LeShuttle.
unverified Some of these figures haven’t yet been checked against an official source or a published history. What’s in doubt ↓
Car types
| Code | Car | Length | Doors per side |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | Class 9 locomotive | 72 ft 2 in22.00 m |
Sources
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- Eurotunnel Class 9 Wikipedia, read 27 October 202672 ft (22 m), 9 ft 9 in (2.97 m) wide, 13 ft 9 in (4.19 m) high, 4 ft 1 in (1,250 mm) wheels, Bo-Bo-Bo, 160 km/h (99 mph), the fleet, the one main cab, the side cab windows left out of the original build
- LeShuttle Wikipedia, read 29 October 202658 locomotives
- Eurotunnel Tri-Bo locomotives Kent Rail (enthusiast site), read 27 October 2026the three-bogie layout; one at each end of a Shuttle; the rear slab end adjoining the train; the livery's history
- Eurotunnel Class 9 locomotive 9834 (Folkestone) Kenyh, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0), read 29 October 2026the bodyside's layout (perspective-fitted): the cab door and its rails, the roof box's ends, the blue sweep, the secondary springs of two bogies, the underframe cases, the pale cantrail strip; the 9/8's small side cab window (not drawn)
- Eurotunnel 9015, Nord-Pas-de-Calais Tony Hisgett, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0), read 29 October 2026the check of the door's position, the blue's raked front edge, the cab end's heights (windscreen, nose panel, lamp panel), the front buffers and coupler; no side cab window on an unrebuilt 9/0
- Eurotunnel 9 (a Shuttle with its locomotive, from the hill) Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0; author on the file page), read 29 October 2026the far view: the door's and roundel's positions along the body, the roof box, the raised rear pantograph, the loco coupled to a loader
- ETL 9004+9003, Velim, August 1993 Petr Litomyský, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0), read 29 October 2026the rear slab end (a central door, a centre coupler) and the cab front, as built
- Eurotunnel Class 9705, leaving the Channel Tunnel at Coquelles Florian Fèvre, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0), read 29 October 2026the livery on a 9/7 (the same blue and grey); too far and too head-on for anything else
- EuroTunnel Class 09 Number 9825.jpg (photograph, Attribution) Wikimedia Commons (The original uploader was ACBest at English Wikipedia.), read 30 October 2026the near-broadside: the roof box's louvre band and its raked ends, the rear bodyside window and grille, the cab door's position (round 2)
- Eurotunneltrain.jpg (photograph, Public domain) Wikimedia Commons (User:Honza.c), read 30 October 2026the side cab window on a 9/0, the steps under the cab door (round 3)
- 9711 side on, in motion (photograph supplied by Kyle for set CTS2 round 4, 30 October 2026) supplied by Kyle, supplied 30 October 2026round 4: the cab profile, side window, cab door and rails, the lower nose valance and its recess, the buffers and drawgear, the step box, the leading bogie's position, springs and dampers, the blue's front edge and where the sweep meets the foot
- A Guide to Overhead Electrification (132787-ALB-GUN-EOH-000001, rev 10) Network Rail (prepared by Alan Baxter), February 2015, p. 39the contact wire in the In operation drawing: 15 ft 5 in (4.7 m) above rail, Network Rail's normal height
unverified
- The figures are Wikipedia's and an enthusiast site's; the fleet is given as 57 and as 58
- The drawing's lengths along the body come from a perspective fit on one three-quarter photograph (9834), checked on a second (9015) and a far view; no dimensioned drawing was found (set CT, 29 October 2026)
- The bogie centres: the two nearer the cab were read from the secondary springs on 9834; the rear one is placed by estimate; the 9 ft 2 in (2,800 mm) wheelbase is estimated
- The body's foot (3 ft 7 in (1,100 mm)) and the roof box's top (13 ft 0 in (3,950 mm)) are estimates that fix every height: the ratios between heights are measured, their absolute scale is not
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