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China Railways 8G
🇷🇺 Soviet Union ·built by Novocherkassk Electric Locomotive Plant· from 1987· class of Chinese electric locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. 8G-061 electric locomotive: 颐园居· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The 8G is a Soviet-built electric locomotive used in China. It is developed and built by Novocherkassk Electric Locomotive Plant. The design of 8G is based on Soviet Railway VL80S electric locomotives.
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 39 years ago, in 1987.
- 6.4 MW is about 75 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 31 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 34.5 m long: about 8 cars parked nose to tail.
electric locomotive: Draws power from overhead wires or a third rail and pulls separate carriages.
spec sheet
- built
- 1987–1990
- number built
- 100
- kind
- Electric
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇷🇺 Soviet Union
- builders
- Novocherkassk Electric Locomotive Plant
- operators
- China State Railway Group, Ministry of Railways of the People's Republic of China
- top speed
- 100 km/h
- power
- 6.4 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- electric system
- 25 kV AC Catenary
- wheel arrangement
- Bo′Bo′+Bo′Bo′
- length
- 34.5 m
- weight
- 184 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q846038, Wikipedia: China Railways 8G (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.