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Korail Class 8500
🇰🇷 South Korea ·built by Hyundai Rotem· from 2012· class of South Korean electric locomotives
4 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. KORAIL EL8500: Subway06· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. Korail 8500 Freight: Minseong Kim· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. Korail Class 8500 Freight: Minseong Kim· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. Korail Class 8500 Locomotive: Minseong Kim· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Korail Class 8500 is a South Korean electric locomotive owned and operated by the Korean national railroad operator Korail, built by Hyundai Rotem. Unlike previous electric locomotive models owned by Korail, Class 8500 used traction motors supplied by Toshiba.
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 14 years ago, in 2012.
- Top speed is 1.2× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- 6.6 MW is about 78 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 22 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 22.4 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
electric locomotive: Draws power from overhead wires or a third rail and pulls separate carriages.
spec sheet
- built
- 2012–2014
- number built
- 87
- kind
- Electric
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇰🇷 South Korea
- builders
- Hyundai Rotem
- designer
- Hyundai Rotem
- operators
- Korea Railroad Corporation
- top speed
- 150 km/h
- power
- 6.6 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- electric system
- 25 kV AC 60 Hz
- wheel arrangement
- Co′Co′
- length
- 22.4 m
- weight
- 132 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q492547, Wikipedia: Korail Class 8500 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.