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Indian locomotive class WAP-4
🇮🇳 India ·built by Chittaranjan Locomotive Works· from 1993· class of 25 kV AC electric locomotives
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10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. WAP-4 Class locomotive of Indian Railways: UY Scuti· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. AJJ WAP4: Raju2789· CC0
- 3. WAP-4 Rail Engine at Dhubulia Railway Station: চ্যাম্পিয়ন স্টার ১· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. (22214) Lallaguda based WAP 4 Locomotive at Secunderabad: Adityamadhav83· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. (22214) WAP4 Loco at Hiding at Secunderabad Outer: Adityamadhav83· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 6. (Shalimar - Trivandrum) Express with a WAP4 loco: Adityamadhav83· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 7. 12864 Yesvantpur-Howrah Express with a WAP-4 loco at Pithapuram: Adityamadhav83· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 8. 22530 wap4 hwh off-poh kpa: Vikashanand.iisc· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 9. A Santragacchi based WAP4 Locomotive (22826) at Visakhapatnam Trip shed: Adityamadhav83· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 10. A WAP 4 loco from Ghaziabad shed bringing in (Guwahati - Secunderabad) Express: Adityamadhav83· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Indian locomotive class WAP-4 is a class of 25 kV AC electric locomotives that was developed in 1993 by Chittaranjan Locomotive Works for Indian Railways. The model name stands for broad gauge (W), AC Current (A), Passenger traffic (P) locomotive, 4th generation (4). They entered service in late 1994.
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 33 years ago, in 1993.
- Top speed is 1.1× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- 4 MW is about 47 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 19 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 18.8 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
- 1993–2015
- status
- in service
- number built
- 778
- kind
- Electric
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇮🇳 India
- builders
- Chittaranjan Locomotive Works
- operators
- Indian Railways
- top speed
- 140 km/h
- power
- 4 MW
- gauge
- 1,676 mm Indian broad gauge
- electric system
- Overhead
- wheel arrangement
- Co'-Co'
- length
- 18.8 m
- weight
- 116 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q6022606, Wikipedia: Indian locomotive class WAP-4 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.