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Bangladesh Railway Class 2800
🇧🇩 Bangladesh ·built by Banaras Locomotive Works· from 1996· class of diesel-electric locomotives
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- 1. Jamuna Express: Tash avenger· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
Bangladesh Railway Class 2800 is a class of metre-gauge diesel-electric locomotive operated by Bangladesh Railway. A total of 10 locomotives of this class were manufactured by Banaras Locomotive Works (BLW), India. They entered the fleet of Bangladesh Railway in 1996 and are used exclusively in passenger trains.
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 30 years ago, in 1996.
- 1 MW is about 12 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- 15.6 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1996
- status
- in service
- number built
- 10
- kind
- Diesel-Electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇧🇩 Bangladesh
- builders
- Banaras Locomotive Works
- designer
- ALCO, BLW
- operators
- Bangladesh Railway
- top speed
- 96 km/h
- power
- 1 MW
- gauge
- 1,000 mm metre gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co'Co'
- length
- 15.6 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q93771179, Wikipedia: Bangladesh Railway Class 2800 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.