#5141
Indian locomotive class WAP-7
🇮🇳 India ·built by Patiala Locomotive Works· from 1999· India's Most Powerful Passenger Locomotive
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10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. LGD WAP7 30306: Pramath S.B· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. BZA WAP7: Raju2789· CC0
- 3. Charminar WAP7: VtTN· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 4. Indian Electric Locomotive WAP-7 ED - 39231: Sameer2905· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. SDAH based WAP-7 39207 pulling 13147 Sealdah–Bamanhat Uttar Banga Express 05: Kingshuk Mondal· CC BY 4.0
- 6. TUGHLAKABAD WAP7 AD 37873 AT THRISSUR ©️SREENATH: Mr. SREENATH K· CC BY 4.0
- 7. (39096) WAP7 HR locomotive spotted at Vijayawada Junction: Adityamadhav83· CC BY 4.0
- 8. 12139 Nagpur Sewagram Express with Ajni based WAP 7 locomotive: Superfast1111· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 9. 22693 WAP7 KZJ-2: Nikhilb239· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 10. A Ghaziabad based Head On Generation (HOG) WAP-7 hauling Bhubaneswar Rajdhani Express: Debashis.jena16· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Indian locomotive class WAP-7 is a class of 25 kV AC electric locomotives that was developed in 1999 by Chittaranjan Locomotive Works (CLW) for Indian Railways. Its class designation denotes a broad gauge (W) alternating current (A) passenger (P) locomotive of the 7th generation (7). They entered service in 2000.
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 27 years ago, in 1999.
- Top speed is 1.5× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 12 minutes.
- 4.7 MW is about 56 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 21 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 20.6 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
electric locomotive: Draws power from overhead wires or a third rail and pulls separate carriages.
spec sheet
- built
- 1999–2023
- in service from
- 2000
- number built
- 1,143
- kind
- Electric
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇮🇳 India
- builders
- Patiala Locomotive Works, Chittaranjan Locomotive Works
- operators
- Indian Railways
- top speed
- 200 km/h
- power
- 4.7 MW
- gauge
- 1,676 mm Indian broad gauge
- electric system
- 25 kV 50 Hz AC Overhead
- length
- 20.6 m
- weight
- 123 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q12060723, Wikipedia: Indian locomotive class WAP-7 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.