4 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. EF1018 Shibaura Factory 193803: Japanese National Railways / Toshiba· Public domain
- 2. JGR-EF10 1-16: Kone· Public domain
- 3. JGR-EF10 17: Kone· Public domain
- 4. JGR-EF10 30-33: Kone· Public domain
what is it?
The Class EF10 (EF10形) is an electric locomotive built for the Japanese Government Railways formerly operated on freight services in Japan from 1934 until 1983.
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 92 years ago, in 1934.
- 1.4 MW is about 16 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
- 1934–1941
- in service from
- 1934
- status
- retired
- number built
- 41
- kind
- Electric
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- Hitachi, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Kisha Seizo, Mitsubishi, Toshiba, Mitsubishi Electric, Nippon Sharyo, Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing
- operators
- Japanese National Railways
- top speed
- 75 km/h
- power
- 1.4 MW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- electric system
- 1,500 V DC overhead line
- wheel arrangement
- (1′Co)+(Co1′)
- weight
- 97.5 t
- Dutch name
- JNR EF10
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q11421821, Wikipedia: JNR Class EF10 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.