#1374
SJ E
built by Unknown builder· from 1907· class of Swedish 0-8-0 (some later 2-8-0) locomotives
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Swedish-railway-museum-gavle-19: Pimvantend· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. 101 SJ E 984 KDAJ07815: Unknown author Unknown author· Attribution
what is it?
The E, E2 and E5 classes of the Swedish State Railways (SJ) were three closely related types of steam locomotives. The E class 0-8-0 locomotives were part of the development of modern superheated types that had begun with the A class in 1906, and were intended for both mixed traffic in Norrland and heavy freight trains in southern Sweden. Many of them were rebuilt to the 2-8-0 E2 class between 1935 and 1951, enabling a speed increase from 65 kilometres per hour (40 mph) to 70 km/h (43 mph).
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 119 years ago, in 1907.
- Weighs about as much as 8 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 16.7 m long: about 4 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
- 1907–1920
- number built
- —
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- builders
- Unknown builder
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- wheel arrangement
- 0-8-0
- length
- 16.7 m
- weight
- 50 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q10478741, Wikipedia: SJ E (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.