Chōsen Railway Class 630

what is it?

The Class 630 was a class of steam tank locomotives with 2-6-2 wheel arrangement operated by the Chōsen Railway in colonial Korea. The first five were built for the company by Kisha Seizō of Japan for use on the railway's Hwanghae Line; they were numbered 630 through 634 (works numbers 1113-1117); these were joined by an unknown number built by Nippon Sharyō in the same year. After the Liberation and partition of Korea, these locomotives were taken over by the Korean State Railway of North Korea, and were likely scrapped after the conversion of the Hwanghae Line network to standard gauge in 1973.

who runs it

Chōsen RailwayKorean State Railway

base stats

• weight 28.5 tin working order
• built 5made in total

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 96 years ago, in 1930.
• 🐘Weighs about as much as 5 African elephants (~6 t each).

steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.

spec sheet

built

1930

in service from

1930

number built

5

kind

Steam

traction

steam

origin

🇯🇵 Japan

builders

Kisha Seizo, Nippon Sharyo

operators

Chōsen Railway, Korean State Railway

top speed

—

power

—

gauge

762 mm narrow gauge

wheel arrangement

2-6-2T

length

8.6 m

weight

28.5 t

From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.