#2373
MÁV Class V40
🇭🇺 Hungary ·built by Ganz Works· from 1932· class of 29 Hungarian electric locomotives
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- 1. Kando mozdony: Riesz József· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The MÁV Class V40 was an electric locomotive of the Hungarian State Railways (MÁV) and the first production electric locomotive using the Kandó system. It had a wheel arrangement of 1'D1' or 2-8-2 and a single Metropolitan-Vickers traction motor driving through side rods.
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 94 years ago, in 1932.
- 1.6 MW is about 19 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 16 African elephants (~6 t each).
electric locomotive: Draws power from overhead wires or a third rail and pulls separate carriages.
spec sheet
- built
- 1932–1937
- retired
- 1967
- status
- retired
- number built
- 29
- kind
- Electric locomotive
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇭🇺 Hungary
- builders
- Ganz Works
- top speed
- 100 km/h
- power
- 1.6 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-8-2
- weight
- 94 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q729011, Wikipedia: MÁV Class V40 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.