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DeRoI-class locomotive (Toshiba)
Korea under Japanese rule ·built by Kisha Seizo· from 1943· class of 9 electric locomotives built by Toshiba
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Deroi1 toshiba: Unknown, likely Toshiba locomotive factory· Public domain
what is it?
The Toshiba DeRoI-class (Japanese: デロイ) was a group of nine boxcab-style electric locomotives with regenerative braking (type EL14AR) and the capability for multiple-unit control manufactured by built by Toshiba in 1943–1944. They were very similar to the Mitsubishi-built DeRoI-class locomotives and the DeRoNi-class locomotives built by Hitachi. They were built for the Chosen Government Railway (Sentetsu), and after the partition of Korea were inherited by the Korean State Railway of North Korea, where they were known as the Chŏngiha (Korean: 전기하, "Electric 1") class.
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.
- 2.3 MW is about 27 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 23 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 19.1 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
electric locomotive: Draws power from overhead wires or a third rail and pulls separate carriages.
spec sheet
- built
- 1943–1949
- number built
- 9
- kind
- Electric
- traction
- electric
- origin
- Korea under Japanese rule
- builders
- Kisha Seizo, Toshiba
- designer
- Shinichi Matsuda, Saneyoshi Hirota
- operators
- Chōsen Government Railway, Korean State Railway
- top speed
- 75 km/h
- power
- 2.3 MW
- electric system
- 3,000 V DC
- wheel arrangement
- 1C-C1
- length
- 19.1 m
- weight
- 135 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q23020776, Wikipedia: DeRoI-class locomotive (Toshiba) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.