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JGR Class 8620
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries· from 1914· class of Japanese 2-6-0 steam locomotives
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. JNR 58654 bs-digital-go 20100904 001: ウツダー· CC BY 2.1 jp
- 2. JRK 58654 SL-Hitoyoshi: MaedaAkihiko· CC0
what is it?
The Class 8620 (8620形) is a type of 2-6-0 steam locomotive built in Japan from 1914 to 1929. It was Japan's first mass-produced passenger locomotive. A total of 672 Class 8620 locomotives were built.
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 112 years ago, in 1914.
- 558 kW is about 7 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 8 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
- 1914–1929
- retired
- 1975
- status
- retired
- number built
- 672
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Hitachi, Nippon Sharyo, Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing, Kisha Seizo
- operators
- Japanese National Railways, Kyushu Railway Company, Taiwan Railways Administration
- top speed
- 90 km/h
- power
- 558 kW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-6-0
- weight
- 48.8 t
- nicknames
- Hachiroku, Mugen Train
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q11421705, Wikipedia: JGR Class 8620 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.