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Škoda Type 22E2
🇰🇵 North Korea ·built by Škoda Transportation· from 1958· Class of Czechoslovakian build locomotives for North Korea
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Elektrická lokomotiva Českých drah řady 140: Rainerhaufe· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. Škoda Type 22E2: Pyongyang Foreign Language Publishing Company· CC0
what is it?
The Škoda Type 22E2 type locomotive is a multipurpose electric locomotive built for the North Korean State Railway by the Škoda Works of Czechoslovakia.
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 68 years ago, in 1958.
- 2 MW is about 24 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
electric locomotive: Draws power from overhead wires or a third rail and pulls separate carriages.
spec sheet
- built
- 1958
- number built
- 10
- kind
- Electric
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇰🇵 North Korea
- builders
- Škoda Works
- operators
- Korean State Railway
- top speed
- 120 km/h
- power
- 2 MW
- electric system
- 3,000 V DC
- wheel arrangement
- Bo′Bo′
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q23637394, Wikipedia: Škoda Type 22E2 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.