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ChS4
🇨🇿 Czechoslovakia ·built by Škoda Transportation· from 1963· class of 232 Soviet electric locomotives
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10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Locomotive ChS4-072 2011 G1: George Chernilevsky· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. CHS4 (ЧС4) 25 electric locomotive (5051145890): Mikhail (Vokabre) Shcherbakov from Moscow, Russia· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 3. Electric Passenger Locomotive ChS4. Пассажирский электровоз ЧС4 (8680470287): Andrey Korchagin from St. Petersburg, Russia· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 4. Rostov-on-Don. Museum of North Caucasus Railway, electric locomotive ChS4 P9161407 2350: Alexxx1979· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. CHS4-089: Y206· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 6. Electric passenger locomotive ChS4-012 (1): Wikimedia Commons· CC BY-SA 2.5
- 7. The Stationary Travel (125661611): Albert Bergonzo· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 8. Музей ж-д транспорта - panoramio (17): MrStepanovka· CC BY 3.0
- 9. ЧС4-164 (Trainpix 174698): Pozdnyakov D.V.· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 10. CHS4-012: Starina 4ex· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The ChS4 (Czech: ČS4, Russian: ЧС4) is an electric mainline AC passenger locomotive used in Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine.
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 63 years ago, in 1963.
- Top speed is 1.2× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 15 minutes.
- 5.1 MW is about 60 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 21 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 20 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
electric locomotive: Draws power from overhead wires or a third rail and pulls separate carriages.
spec sheet
- built
- 1963–1972
- number built
- 232
- kind
- Electric
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇨🇿 Czechoslovakia
- builders
- Škoda Works, Škoda Transportation
- operators
- Russian Railways, Ukrainian Railways
- top speed
- 160 km/h
- power
- 5.1 MW
- gauge
- 1,524 mm Russian broad gauge
- electric system
- Catenary
- length
- 20 m
- weight
- 123 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q856740, Wikipedia: ChS4 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.