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Indian locomotive class WAP-6
🇮🇳 India ·built by Chittaranjan Locomotive Works· from 1995· Class of 25 kV AC electric locomotives
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- 1. Kaziranga Express (SBC-Guwahati) at Khalor, West Bengal: Smeet Chowdhury· CC BY 2.0
what is it?
The Indian locomotive class WAP-6 was a class of 25 kV AC electric locomotives that was developed in the mid-1990s by Chittaranjan Locomotive Works for Indian Railways. The model name stands for broad gauge (W), AC Current (A), Passenger traffic (P) locomotive, 6th generation (6). They entered service in April 1996.
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 31 years ago, in 1995.
- Top speed is 1.2× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 15 minutes.
- 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
- 1995–1998
- retired
- 2012
- status
- retired
- number built
- 16
- kind
- Electric
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇮🇳 India
- builders
- Chittaranjan Locomotive Works
- operators
- Indian Railways
- top speed
- 160 km/h
- power
- 4 MW
- gauge
- 1,676 mm Indian broad gauge
- electric system
- Overhead
- wheel arrangement
- Co'-Co'
- length
- 18.8 m
- weight
- 113 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q17056214, Wikipedia: Indian locomotive class WAP-6 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.