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PKP class SM40
🇵🇱 Poland ·built by Ganz Works· from 1956· Polish code-name for a Hungarian locomotive
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6 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. SM41-01 Chabówka 4 (Nemo5576): Tomasz Górny ( Nemo5576 )· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. PKP-SM41-164-Javorzyna-Slaska: Rainerhaufe· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. Skansen w Chabówce - lokomotywa Sm4001 2: User:Piotrus· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 4. Skansen w Chabówce - lokomotywa Sm4001: User:Piotrus· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 5. SM41-01 Chabówka 3 (Nemo5576): Tomasz Górny ( Nemo5576 )· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 6. SM41-01 Chabówka 5 (Nemo5576): Tomasz Górny ( Nemo5576 )· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
SM40 is a Polish code-name for a Hungarian shunting and maneuvering purpose diesel electric locomotive after export from Hungary to Poland and in service at PKP.
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 70 years ago, in 1956.
- 441 kW is about 5 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 11 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 11.3 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1956
- number built
- —
- kind
- Diesel
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇵🇱 Poland
- builders
- Ganz Works
- operators
- Polish State Railways
- top speed
- 80 km/h
- power
- 441 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Bo′Bo′
- length
- 11.3 m
- weight
- 67 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q3496294, Wikipedia: PKP class SM40 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.