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SJ F

🇸🇪 Sweden ·built by ASEA· locomotive class

SJ F, photo 1 of 1
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what is it?

Littera F was a class of electric locomotives operated by the Swedish state railways (SJ) between 1942 and 1983. Twenty-four F-locomotives were constructed and delivered between 1942 and 1949. The design was a rigid-framed locomotive with quill drive and the axle arrangement 1′Do1′, inspired by the German type E 18.

who runs it

base stats

  • speed 135 km/htop speed
  • built 17made in total

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.

spec sheet

built
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number built
17
kind
Electric
traction
electric
origin
🇸🇪 Sweden
builders
ASEA, Brown, Boveri & Cie, Nydqvist och Holm AB, Motala Verkstad
operators
Statens Järnvägar
top speed
135 km/h
power
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From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.

Sources: Wikidata Q603826, Wikipedia: SJ F (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.

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