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ČSD Class EMU 29.0
🇸🇰 Slovakia ·built by Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works· from 1970· class of 3 Czechoslovakian metre-gauge rack- electric multiple unit
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Strbske pleso zubacka: Petr Vilgus· CC BY 3.0
- 2. EMU 29, rok 1983: ŠJů ( cs:ŠJů )· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The former ČSD Class EMU 29.0, now known as the ZSSK Class 405.95, is a three member class of metre gauge, rack rail, electric multiple unit trains in service on the Štrbské Pleso – Štrba rack railway, in the Prešov Region of northeastern Slovakia.
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 56 years ago, in 1970.
- 340 kW is about 4 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 7 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 33.2 m long: about 7 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 126: 3 full city buses (~50 seats each).
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1970
- in service from
- 1970
- number built
- 3
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇸🇰 Slovakia
- builders
- Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works, Brown, Boveri & Cie
- operators
- Železničná spoločnosť Slovensko
- top speed
- 20 km/h
- power
- 340 kW
- gauge
- 1,000 mm metre gauge
- electric system
- 1500 V DC overhead
- wheel arrangement
- (A1)(A1)+ 2'2'
- formation
- Power car + control car.
- length
- 33.2 m
- weight
- 39 t
- capacity
- 126 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q336917, Wikipedia: ČSD Class EMU 29.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.