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SBB Be 4/6 12303-12342
🇨🇭 Switzerland ·built by Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works· from 1920· class of 40 Swiss electric locomotives
7 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. SBB-Be4-6-12320b: St.Hinni· CC BY 2.5
- 2. SBB Be 4-6 12313: Unknown author Unknown author· Public domain
- 3. SBB Historic Be 4-6 zwischen Rämismühle-Zell und Rikon: Kabelleger / David Gubler ( http://www.bahnbilder.ch )· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 4. Be 4-6 Rehbock Rämismühle: SchmalspurDVZO· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. SBB Be 4 6 12339: Davide Oliva· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 6. SBB Be 4-6 12320 and RAe TEE II 1053: Fabien Perissinotto· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 7. SBB-Be4-6-12320a: St.Hinni· CC BY 2.5
what is it?
The Be 4/6 was a bogie locomotive operated by the Schweizerischen Bundesbahnen (Swiss Federal Railways) (SBB) on the Gotthard Railway along with the Be 3/5, The design was based on the prototype Be 4/6 12302.
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 106 years ago, in 1920.
- Weighs about as much as 18 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 16.5 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 56 years (1920–1976).
electric locomotive: Draws power from overhead wires or a third rail and pulls separate carriages.
spec sheet
- built
- 1920–1923
- in service from
- 1920
- retired
- 1976
- status
- retired
- number built
- 40
- kind
- Electric
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇨🇭 Switzerland
- builders
- Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works, Brown, Boveri & Cie
- operators
- Swiss Federal Railways
- top speed
- 75 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- electric system
- Catenary
- wheel arrangement
- (1′B)(B1′)
- length
- 16.5 m
- weight
- 107 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q20825880, Wikipedia: SBB Be 4/6 12303-12342 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.