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HŽ series 1142
🇭🇷 Croatia ·built by KONČAR – Elektroindustrija d.d.· from 1981· locomotive class
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2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. HŽ 1142 series locomotive (01): Orlovic· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. HŽ 1142 008 Zagreb Glavni Kolodvor (35440719523): John Mulrine from Antwerpen, Belgium· CC BY 2.0
what is it?
1142 series is the fastest electrical locomotive on Croatian Railways (Croatian: Hrvatske željeznice, HŽ).
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 45 years ago, in 1981.
- 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.
- 4.4 MW is about 52 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- 15.9 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
- 1981–1989
- status
- in service
- number built
- 16
- kind
- Electric
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇭🇷 Croatia
- builders
- KONČAR – Elektroindustrija d.d.
- operators
- Croatian Railways
- top speed
- 160 km/h
- power
- 4.4 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- electric system
- 25 kV 50 Hz AC Catenary
- wheel arrangement
- Bo′Bo′
- length
- 15.9 m
- nicknames
- "Lepa Brena" (former used in Yugoslavia), "Brena" (today in Croatia)
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1058048, Wikipedia: HŽ series 1142 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.