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ČSD Class EMU 89.0
🇨🇿 Czechoslovakia ·built by ČKD· from 1965· class of 18 Czechoslovakian electric multiple units
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5 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. TEŽ, Električka 03 (cropped): Michal Gregor· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. ŽSR Class 420.95, 2020: PeterWiki56· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. 00 941 Bf Vyšné Hágy, EMU 89 0010: Falk2· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. 00 943 Bf Tatranská Lomnica, EMU 89, Stirnfront: Falk2· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. 00 944 EMU 89, Gelenk: Falk2· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The former ČSD Class EMU 89.0, later known as the ŽSR Class 420.95, was a class of metre gauge electric multiple units operated from the late 1960s until 2001-2002, on the Tatra Electric Railway (TEŽ), in the Prešov Region of northeastern Slovakia.
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 61 years ago, in 1965.
- 320 kW is about 4 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 8 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 37.5 m long: about 8 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 156: 3 full city buses (~50 seats each).
- Served for 37 years (1965–2002).
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1965
- in service from
- 1965
- retired
- 2002
- status
- retired
- number built
- 18
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇨🇿 Czechoslovakia
- builders
- ČKD
- operators
- Československé státní dráhy
- top speed
- 50 km/h
- power
- 320 kW
- gauge
- 1,000 mm metre gauge
- electric system
- 1.5 kV DC
- wheel arrangement
- Bo'Bo'Bo'Bo'
- length
- 37.5 m
- weight
- 47.4 t
- capacity
- 156 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q336928, Wikipedia: ČSD Class EMU 89.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.