what is it?
F33, earlier Fo5a and F5, is a Swedish baggage car of the 1960s-car designed and manufactured by Kalmar Verkstad (KVAB) between 1961 and 1962 for the only customer SJ. The wagons feature a 33-square-metre (360 sq ft) storage area for luggage, as well as a rest area for the staff of the train. In the year of 2000 SJ decided to discontinue their use of luggage cars which subsequently led to the F33 being phased out immediately.
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 65 years ago, in 1961.
- Top speed is 1.2× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 15 minutes.
- Weighs about as much as 5 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 16 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 39 years (1961–2000).
carriage / wagon: Unpowered passenger coaches or freight wagons, pulled by a locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1961
- in service from
- 1961
- retired
- 2000
- status
- retired
- number built
- 35
- kind
- carriage / wagon
- origin
- 🇸🇪 Sweden
- builders
- Kalmar verkstad
- operators
- SJ AB
- top speed
- 160 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- length
- 16 m
- weight
- 31 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q18289501, Wikipedia: SJ F33 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.