#6217· DB-Baureihe 490
DBAG Class 490
🇩🇪 Germany ·built by ALSTOM Transportation Germany· electric multiple unit train for the Hamburg S-Bahn
10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. DB 490117 Near Harburg: Superalbs· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. BR490 Aumuehle1: Bensch511· CC0
- 3. BR490 Aumuehle2: Bensch511· CC0
- 4. BR490 Aumuehle3: Bensch511· CC0
- 5. BR490 Aumuehle4: Bensch511· CC0
- 6. BR490 Aumuehle5: Bensch511· CC0
- 7. Class 490 EMU: Samson Ng . D201@EAL· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 8. DB-490 151 Dresden Hauptbahnhof 06 26: Rainerhaufe· CC0
- 9. DBAG 490 511 Billwerder-Moorfleet 01: Sebastian Koppehel· CC BY 4.0
- 10. DBAG 490 511 Billwerder-Moorfleet 02: Sebastian Koppehel· CC BY 4.0
what is it?
The DBAG Class 490 is a three-car dual-voltage electric multiple unit train for the Hamburg S-Bahn. It was manufactured jointly by Bombardier Transportation and Alstom in 2013.
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
- Top speed is 1.1× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- 1.6 MW is about 19 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 20 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 66 m long: about 15 cars parked nose to tail.
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- —
- number built
- —
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- builders
- ALSTOM Transportation Germany, Alstom
- operators
- S-Bahn Hamburg GmbH
- top speed
- 140 km/h
- power
- 1.6 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- electric system
- overhead line, overhead catenary
- wheel arrangement
- 2′Bo′+Bo′Bo′+Bo′2′
- length
- 66 m
- weight
- 122 t
- Dutch name
- DB-Baureihe 490
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q46088756, Wikipedia: DBAG Class 490 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.