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Rhaetian Railway G 4/5
🇨🇭 Switzerland ·built by Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works· from 1904· locomotive class
8 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. G 4 5 108: Rainerhaufe· CC BY-SA 3.0 de
- 2. RhB G 4-5 Nr. 107 "Albula" im Untervaz-Trimmis: JoachimKohler-HB· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. "Albula" Thusis station: Reinhard Dietrich· CC BY 3.0
- 4. Durstig! RhB G 3-4 Nr. 107: JoachimKohler-HB· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. G 4-5 107 Albula and Ge 6-6 II 702 Curia normal: SchmalspurDVZO· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 6. G 4-5 107 Albula and Ge 6-6 II 702 Curia wide: SchmalspurDVZO· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 7. G 4-5 107 Albula and Ge 6-6 II 702 Curia: SchmalspurDVZO· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 8. G 4-5 107 Albula Grüsch: SchmalspurDVZO· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Rhaetian Railway G 4/5 was a class of metre gauge 2-8-0 steam locomotives operated by the Rhaetian Railway (RhB), which is the main railway network in the Canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. The class was named G 4/5 under the Swiss locomotive and railcar classification system. According to that system, G 4/5 denotes a narrow gauge steam locomotive with a total of five axles, four of which are drive axles.
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 122 years ago, in 1904.
- 588 kW is about 7 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 10 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 13.2 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
- 1904–1915
- retired
- 1952
- status
- retired
- number built
- 29
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇨🇭 Switzerland
- builders
- Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works
- operators
- Rhaetian Railway
- top speed
- 45 km/h
- power
- 588 kW
- gauge
- 1,000 mm metre gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-8-0
- length
- 13.2 m
- weight
- 58.9 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q688483, Wikipedia: Rhaetian Railway G 4/5 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.