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- 1. Тепловоз-мотриса ТУ8П-0005 на перегоне Режет - Тубы 01: Alexander Novikov· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. DalatTraimatRailline1: Kelisi· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3. Gare de Dalat: Jérémy Couture· CC BY 2.0
what is it?
TU8P (ТУ8П) is a Soviet, later Russian diesel locomotive, railcar or draisine for gauge 750 mm (2 ft 5+1⁄2 in).
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 38 years ago, in 1988.
- 9.7 m long: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1988
- number built
- —
- kind
- Diesel
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇷🇺 Russia
- builders
- Kambarka Engineering Works
- top speed
- 63 km/h
- power
- 134 kW
- gauge
- 750 mm narrow gauge
- wheel arrangement
- B'B'
- length
- 9.7 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q3660849, Wikipedia: TU8P (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.