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Chōsen Railway Class 700
Korea under Japanese rule ·built by Hitachi· from 1927· 0-8-0 steam locomotive
what is it?
The Class 700 was a class of 0-8-0T steam locomotives operated by the Chōsen Railway in colonial Korea, built by Hitachi of Japan. Their fate after the Liberation and partition of Korea is unknown.
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 99 years ago, in 1927.
- Weighs about as much as 5 African elephants (~6 t each).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1927
- in service from
- 1927
- number built
- —
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- Korea under Japanese rule
- builders
- Hitachi
- operators
- Chōsen Railway
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 762 mm narrow gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 0-8-0
- length
- 8.9 m
- weight
- 28.2 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q16164350, Wikipedia: Chōsen Railway Class 700 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.