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ČSD Class E 422.0
🇨🇿 Czech Republic ·built by Škoda Transportation· from 1956· class of 4 Czechoslovakian electric locomotive
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Kapesnich Bobina: de:User:Rainerhaufe (selbst fotografiert)· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The ČSD class E 422.0 (Class 100 since 1987) is a Czech electric locomotive, intended for secondary lines electrified at 1.5kV DC. The locomotives were produced by Škoda Works in 1956 and 1957 under the designation Škoda 15E.
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 70 years ago, in 1956.
- Weighs about as much as 8 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 12.9 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 49 years (1956–2005).
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1956–1957
- in service from
- 1956
- retired
- 2005
- status
- retired
- number built
- 4
- kind
- Electric
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇨🇿 Czech Republic
- builders
- Škoda Works
- operators
- České dráhy, Československé státní dráhy, České dráhy s.o.
- top speed
- 50 km/h
- power
- —
- electric system
- 1.5kV DC via overhead wire
- wheel arrangement
- Bo´Bo´
- length
- 12.9 m
- weight
- 48 t
- nicknames
- Bobinka
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q256405, Wikipedia: ČSD Class E 422.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.