#6193
Chongnyonjol Kinyom-class locomotive
🇰🇵 North Korea ·built by Kim Chong-tae Electric Locomotive Works· Class of North Korean electric locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. DPRK electric locomotive 4048: Clay Gilliland· CC BY-SA 2.0
what is it?
The Ch'ŏngnyŏnjŏl Kinyŏm-class (Korean: 청년절기념, "Youth Day Memorial") is composed of two groups of Bo-Bo electric locomotives operated by the Korean State Railway on passenger and freight trains throughout North Korea. In 1981, the Korean State Railway took delivery of seven Francorail-MTE CSE26-21 diesel locomotives from France, followed by five more in 1985. Due to oil shortages in the late 1980s and early 1990s, it was decided to convert these locomotives to 3,000 V DC electric operation, by removing the diesel engines and installing pantographs and other necessary electrical equipment; this work was carried out by the Kim Chong-t'ae Electric Locomotive Works in P'yŏngyang.
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.
spec sheet
- built
- —
- number built
- 56
- kind
- Electric
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇰🇵 North Korea
- builders
- Kim Chong-tae Electric Locomotive Works
- operators
- Korean State Railway
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- electric system
- 3,000 V DC
- wheel arrangement
- Bo-Bo
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q24088496, Wikipedia: Chongnyonjol Kinyom-class locomotive (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.