#4561· RhB Ge 3/3
Rhaetian Railway Ge 3/3
🇨🇭 Switzerland ·built by Brown, Boveri & Cie· from 1984· locomotive class
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4 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. FR Ge 3-3 215 Chur 060615: NAC· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. CH RhB Ge33 215: GoodRJ· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3. RhB - Ge 3-3 214 (valo139): Valo139· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. RhB Ge 3 3 215: Rainerhaufe at German Wikipedia· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The Rhaetian Railway Ge 3/3 is a class of metre gauge 11 kV 16.7 Hz AC electric shunting locomotives operated by the Rhaetian Railway (RhB), which is the main railway network in the Canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. The class is so named under the Swiss locomotive and railcar classification system. According to that system, Ge 3/3 denotes a narrow gauge electric adhesion locomotive with a total of three axles, all of which are drive axles.
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 42 years ago, in 1984.
- 425 kW is about 5 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 6 African elephants (~6 t each).
electric locomotive: Draws power from overhead wires or a third rail and pulls separate carriages.
spec sheet
- built
- 1984
- status
- in service
- number built
- 2
- kind
- Electric
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇨🇭 Switzerland
- builders
- Brown, Boveri & Cie
- operators
- Rhaetian Railway
- top speed
- 40 km/h
- power
- 425 kW
- gauge
- 1,000 mm metre gauge
- electric system
- 11 kV 16.7 Hz AC Overhead
- wheel arrangement
- 6w
- weight
- 33 t
- Dutch name
- RhB Ge 3/3
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q688461, Wikipedia: Rhaetian Railway Ge 3/3 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.