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Bangladesh Railway Class 6400
built by Banaras Locomotive Works· from 2001· Bangladeshi class of diesel-electric locomotives
what is it?
Bangladesh Railway Locomotive Class 6400 (BED-26) is a class of broad-gauge diesel-electric locomotives owned by Bangladesh Railway. Total 13 locomotives have been manufactured by Banaras Locomotive Works (BLW), India, 10 in 2001 as WDM-2B and 3 in 2004 as WDM-2CA. The class name stands for broad gauge (B), Diesel-electric (E), manufactured by DLW (D), engine with 26 * 100 hp (26) and numbered as 6401 - 6413. Currently all are active in service.
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 25 years ago, in 2001.
- 1.9 MW is about 23 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 2001–2004
- status
- in service
- number built
- 13
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- builders
- Banaras Locomotive Works
- operators
- Bangladesh Railway
- top speed
- 120 km/h
- power
- 1.9 MW
- gauge
- 1,676 mm Indian broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co-Co
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q93771772, Wikipedia: Bangladesh Railway Class 6400 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.