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- 1. SEK-Kg-880: A.E. "Dusty" Durrant (-1999).· Attribution
what is it?
SEK (Sidirodromoi Ellinikou Kratous, Hellenic State Railways) Class Κγ (or Class Kg; Kappa-gamma) is a class of 20 0-10-0 steam locomotives purchased from four Belgian locomotive manufacturers in 1929. They were given the class letters "Kg" and numbers 861 to 880.
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 97 years ago, in 1929.
- Weighs about as much as 12 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 18 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1929
- number built
- 20
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- builders
- list of locomotive builders
- operators
- SEK
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 0-10-0
- length
- 18 m
- weight
- 70 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q39046966, Wikipedia: SEK class Kappa-gamma (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.