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VL40U
🇺🇦 Ukraine ·built by Zaporozhye train repair plant· from 2004· class of Ukrainian electric locomotives
7 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. VL40U-1025-1-Odesa-Ukraine: Vivan755· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. Locomotive VL40U-1025 2 2017 G1: George Chernilevsky· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. VL40U-1025-1414-Odessa-aug-2009: Vivan755· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 4. VL40U: Novoklimov· CC BY 4.0
- 5. Locomotive VL40U-1162-2 2012 G1: George Chernilevsky· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 6. UZ VL40U Lviv: Kabelleger / David Gubler· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 7. VL40U-1397-2 UZ: aresboyy· CC0
what is it?
VL40U — is a AC passenger electric locomotive modernized from sections of the VL80t freight electric locomotive of 2004 for the needs of Ukrzaliznytsia. In the process of modernization, each electric locomotive received new control cabins and equipment. Modernization was carried out at the Zaporizhzhia and Lviv locomotive repair plants in two versions, which differed from each other in the shape of the cab.
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 22 years ago, in 2004.
electric locomotive: Draws power from overhead wires or a third rail and pulls separate carriages.
spec sheet
- built
- 2004
- number built
- —
- kind
- Electric 25 kV, 50 Hz
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇺🇦 Ukraine
- builders
- Zaporozhye train repair plant
- operators
- Ukrainian Railways
- top speed
- 110 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,520 mm Russian broad gauge
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q378600, Wikipedia: VL40U (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.