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TEP70
🇷🇺 Soviet Union ·built by Kolomna Locomotive Works· from 1973· class of Soviet diesel locomotives
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10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. ТЭП70-0323, Россия, Волгоградская область, перегон Пост 6 км — Волгоград-I (Trainpix 173018): Лагутин И.Б.· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. ТЭП70-0124 с поездом, Витебский вокзал: Neu-Zwei· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. TEP70BS: Óðinn· CC BY-SA 2.5 ca
- 4. DieselLoco tep70-007: Sergey Nemanov· CC BY-SA 2.5
- 5. DieselLoco tep70-0402: Беломенов Сергей· CC BY 2.5
- 6. Oktoobriraudtee TEP70-399 ja 2TE116-1553 hommikuses Narvas: TaivoIn· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 7. Passenger diesel locomotive TEP70-0007 (1): Wikimedia Commons· CC BY-SA 1.0
- 8. Passenger diesel locomotive TEP70-0007 (7): Wikimedia Commons· CC BY-SA 1.0
- 9. TEP70-0005: Лебедевский· CC BY 4.0
- 10. TEP70-0440 and 2TE70 back: BLOG· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
TEP70 (Russian: ТЭП70code: rus promoted to code: ru , type 70) is a class of Soviet mainline passenger diesel-electric locomotives with AC-DC electric transmission, manufactured in the USSR and Russia at the Kolomna Locomotive Works from 1973 to 2006. Since 2006, the TEP70BS locomotive, based on this design, was produced. It also served as the basis for the mainline passenger locomotive TEP70U and the dual unit freight locomotive 2TE70.
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 53 years ago, in 1973.
- Top speed is 1.2× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 15 minutes.
- 3 MW is about 35 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 23 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 20.5 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1973–2007
- status
- in service
- number built
- 576
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇷🇺 Soviet Union
- builders
- Kolomna Locomotive Works
- operators
- Soviet Railways, Russian Railways, Ukrainian Railways, Lietuvos geležinkeliai, AB, Latvian Railways, Estonian Railways, Uzbek Railways, Kazakhstan Temir Zholy, Türkmendemirýollary, Belarusian Railway, GoRail
- top speed
- 160 km/h
- power
- 3 MW
- gauge
- 1,520 mm Russian broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co′Co′
- length
- 20.5 m
- weight
- 135 t
- nicknames
- Тапок (Slipper)
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1244431, Wikipedia: TEP70 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.