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Saebyŏl-class locomotive
🇰🇵 North Korea ·built by Kim Chong-tae Electric Locomotive Works· Class of North Korean locomotives
what is it?
The Saebyŏl-class (Korean: 새별 Saebyŏl, "New Star") is a medium-duty diesel-hydraulic shunting locomotive built by the Kim Chong-t'ae Electric Locomotive Works for the Korean State Railway. The Saebyŏl-class locomotives have a centrecab body design, with a full-width cab offset from the centre towards the rear of the locomotive and external walkways along the engine compartment hoods, and are slightly larger than the Red Flag-class shunters. They are powered by a 249 kilowatts (334 hp) diesel engine with a hydrokinetic transmission, and have a Bo-Bo wheel arrangement.
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
- 227
- kind
- Diesel-hydraulic
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇰🇵 North Korea
- builders
- Kim Chong-tae Electric Locomotive Works
- operators
- Korean State Railway
- top speed
- —
- power
- 249 kW
- wheel arrangement
- Bo-Bo
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q24088497, Wikipedia: Saebyŏl-class locomotive (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.