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Finnish Steam Locomotive Class A5
🇫🇮 Finland ·built by Helsingfors· from 1874· class of 2 Finnish 4-4-0 locomotives
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- 1. Finland A5 1: Harveyqs· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The Finnish Steam Locomotive Class A5 was a class of two locomotives, being the first class of locomotive manufactured in Finland. These first Finnish locomotives were production experiments, which allowed the State Railways to investigate the construction methods of locomotives. The State Railways locomotives ordered the construction of a workshop in Helsinki in 1868, at the same time 10 passenger locomotives were ordered from Great Britain for the St.
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 152 years ago, in 1874.
- Weighs about as much as 11 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 13.7 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 53 years (1874–1927).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1874
- in service from
- 1874
- retired
- 1927
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 2
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇫🇮 Finland
- builders
- Helsingfors
- operators
- Finnish State Railways
- top speed
- 80 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,524 mm Russian broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 4-4-0
- length
- 13.7 m
- weight
- 65.4 t
- nicknames
- “Lankkihattu”
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q16957544, Wikipedia: Finnish Steam Locomotive Class A5 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.