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HŽ series 2043
🇭🇷 Croatia ·built by Electro-Motive Diesel· class of Croatian diesel-electric locomotives
what is it?
Series 2043 is a diesel-electric locomotive series on Croatian Railways (Croatian: hrvatske željeznice, HŽ). With the electrification of magistral railway lines the need has arisen that diesel locomotives are put into service on less frequently used lines. Usually lesser axle load is allowed on a branch line and less frequented lines.
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
- 1.4 MW is about 17 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 17 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 17 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
- —
- number built
- 6
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇭🇷 Croatia
- builders
- Electro-Motive Diesel
- operators
- Croatian Railways
- top speed
- 124 km/h
- power
- 1.4 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- (A1A)(A1A)
- length
- 17 m
- weight
- 100 t
- nicknames
- Kramp
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q608833, Wikipedia: HŽ series 2043 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.