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Indian locomotive class WAG-8
🇮🇳 India ·built by Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited· from 1990· Class of Indian locomotives
what is it?
The Indian locomotive class WAG-8 was a class of 25 kV AC electric locomotives that was developed in the early 1990s by Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) for Indian Railways. The model name stands for broad gauge (W), AC current (A), freight/goods traffic (G), eighth-generation (8). Only two units of this class were built, both prototypes.
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 36 years ago, in 1990.
- 3.7 MW is about 44 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 21 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 19.9 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
electric locomotive: Draws power from overhead wires or a third rail and pulls separate carriages.
spec sheet
- built
- 1990
- number built
- 1
- kind
- Electric
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇮🇳 India
- builders
- Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited
- operators
- Indian Railways
- top speed
- 100 km/h
- power
- 3.7 MW
- gauge
- 1,676 mm Indian broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co'-Co'
- length
- 19.9 m
- weight
- 128 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q95690476, Wikipedia: Indian locomotive class WAG-8 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.