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ČSD Class T 478.4
🇨🇿 Czechoslovakia ·built by ČKD· from 1975· class of 86 Czech and Slovakian (ex Czechoslovakian) diesel electric locomotives
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. CD 754062 Mikulov 2014-09-14: Herbert Ortner· CC BY 4.0
- 2. Loco cz 754: Bovlk at English Wikipedia· Public domain
what is it?
T478.4 is a class of diesel locomotives designed, manufactured and used in the former Czechoslovakia and now used in the Czech republic (ČD Class 754) and Slovak republic (ZSSK Class 754). The locomotive is based on the T478.3 locomotive series. The most important difference was an electric train heating generator instead of the steam heating generator used on T478.3.
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 51 years ago, in 1975.
- 1.5 MW is about 17 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 12 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 16.5 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1975–1980
- in service from
- 1978
- number built
- 86
- kind
- Diesel–electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇨🇿 Czechoslovakia
- builders
- ČKD
- operators
- Československé státní dráhy, České dráhy, Railways of the Slovak Republic, Železničná spoločnosť, Železničná spoločnosť Slovensko, České dráhy s.o.
- top speed
- 100 km/h
- power
- 1.5 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Bo′Bo′
- length
- 16.5 m
- weight
- 74 t
- nicknames
- “Goggles”
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q337296, Wikipedia: ČSD Class T 478.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.