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Kh
🇷🇺 Russia ·built by Ust-Katav Wagon-Building Plant· class of double axled high-floor tramcars
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Трамвай "Х": Павел Падалкин· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. Kh tram in Electric city transport museum of Nizhny Novgorod: Сергей Филатов· CC BY-SA 2.5
what is it?
Kh (Russian: Х) was the class of double axled high-floor tramcars, which were built in Soviet Union in interbellum period. First vehicles were built in 1927 and delivered to Kharkov, Ukraine. First letter of city name, Cyrillic Х (usually transliterated as Kh), was selected as a designation of whole series.
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
- Weighs about as much as 2 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 10.3 m long: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
tram / light rail: Street-running or light-rail vehicles that share or skirt the road.
spec sheet
- built
- —
- number built
- 2,000
- kind
- tram / light rail
- origin
- 🇷🇺 Russia
- builders
- Ust-Katav Wagon-Building Plant, Metrowagonmash
- top speed
- 40 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,000 mm metre gauge
- length
- 10.3 m
- weight
- 12.7 t
- capacity
- 16 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q574649, Wikipedia: Kh (tramcar) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.