#2747
JNR Class D52
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing· from 1943· class of 285 Japanese 2-8-2 locomotives based on the D51
10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Gotemba-STA D52-72: MaedaAkihiko· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. Japanese-national-railways-D52-235-20110123: LERK· CC BY 3.0
- 3. Japanese-national-railways-D52-136-20110330: LERK· CC BY 3.0
- 4. Japanese-national-railways-D52-403-20240907-145456: LERK· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. Japanese-national-railways-D52-70-20110404: LERK· CC BY 3.0
- 6. D52 1 steam locomotive 2015-10-24: khws4v1· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 7. JNR D52 1 200510: Taisyo at Japanese Wikipedia· CC BY 3.0
- 8. D52 70 Yamakita railpark and cherry blossom: Kirin7739· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 9. D52 70 Yamakita railpark: Kirin7739· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 10. D52 70: No.7101· CC0
what is it?
The Class D52 is a type of 2-8-2 steam locomotive built by the Japanese Government Railways (Now Japanese National Railways) and various manufacturers: Kisha Seizo, Nippon Sharyo, Kawasaki Heavy Industries Rolling Stock Company, Hitachi, and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries from 1943 to 1946. The name consists of a "D" for the four sets of driving wheels and the class number 52 for tender locomotives that the numbers 50 through 99 were assigned to under the 1928 locomotive classification rule.
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 83 years ago, in 1943.
- Weighs about as much as 14 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 21.1 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1943–1946
- retired
- 1972
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 285
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing
- operators
- Japanese National Railways
- top speed
- 85 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-8-2 (1-D-1) Mikado
- length
- 21.1 m
- weight
- 85.1 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q6108599, Wikipedia: JNR Class D52 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.