Belgian Railways Class 28 (Bombardier)

what is it?

The NMBS/SNCB Class 28 number series has been brought back into use for 43 Bombardier TRAXX locomotives which have been hired from Angel Trains Cargo for use with B-Cargo, the freight division of NMBS/SNCB, since renamed Lineas. They are numbered in two series - they carry their original numbers, E186 123 to E186 125, and E186 196 to E186 220, and have also been numbered into the NMBS/SNCB number series, 2801 to 2843. It was planned that they would work passenger services between Amsterdam, Brecht, Brussels and Antwerp.

who runs it

SNCB/NMBS

base stats

• speed 160 km/htop speed
• power 5.6 MWpower output
• weight 85 tin working order
• built 43made in total

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 19 years ago, in 2007.
• 🏎️Top speed is 1.2× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
• ⏱️At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 15 minutes.
• 🚗5.6 MW is about 66 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
• 🐘Weighs about as much as 14 African elephants (~6 t each).
• 📏18.9 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
• ⌛Served for 2 years (2007–2009).

electric locomotive: Draws power from overhead wires or a third rail and pulls separate carriages.

spec sheet

built

2007–2009

in service from

2007

retired

2009

status

in service

number built

43

kind

DC Electric

traction

electric

origin

🇧🇪 Belgium

builders

ALSTOM Transportation Germany

operators

SNCB/NMBS

top speed

160 km/h

power

5.6 MW

gauge

1,435 mm standard gauge

electric system

1.5 kV DC, 3.0 kV DC, 25 kV 50 Hz AC, 15 kV 16, 2, 3 Hz AC

wheel arrangement

Bo'Bo'

length

18.9 m

weight

85 t

Dutch name

HLE 28

From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.