#0081· SFSP 34–38, 80–89
FS Class 103
🇮🇹 Italy ·built by Sharp, Stewart and Company· from 1853· class of 20 Italian 2-2-2 locomotives
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what is it?
FS Class 103 was a class of 2-2-2 steam locomotives of the Italian State Railways (FS), originally built for the Strade Ferrate dello Stato Piemontese (SFSP).
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 173 years ago, in 1853.
- Weighs about as much as 5 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 14.2 m long: about 3 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
- 1853–1864
- number built
- 20
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇮🇹 Italy
- builders
- Sharp, Stewart and Company
- top speed
- 80 km/h
- power
- 224 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-2-2
- length
- 14.2 m
- weight
- 27.4 t
- Dutch name
- SFSP 34–38, 80–89
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1670418, Wikipedia: FS Class 103 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.