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5 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Locomotive DS3-016 2012 G1: George Chernilevsky· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. ДС3-015 Полтава-Южная: Алексей Краснов· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3. Electric Locomotive DS3-015 (ДС3-015) (6641350705): Nick Savchenko from Kiev, Ukraine· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 4. Locomotive DS3-012 2012 G1: George Chernilevsky· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. DS3-vacuum: Vivan755· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The DS3 (Ukrainian: ДС3) is an AC electric locomotive manufactured by Dnipropetrovsk research-and-production association for electric locomotive engineering (NPO DEVZ) jointly with Siemens.
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 23 years ago, in 2003.
- 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.
- 4.8 MW is about 56 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 15 African elephants (~6 t each).
electric locomotive: Draws power from overhead wires or a third rail and pulls separate carriages.
spec sheet
- built
- 2003–2008
- number built
- 18
- kind
- Electric
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇺🇦 Ukraine
- builders
- DEVZ
- operators
- Ukrainian Railways
- top speed
- 160 km/h
- power
- 4.8 MW
- gauge
- 1,520 mm Russian broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- BoBo
- weight
- 90 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q2030704, Wikipedia: DS3 (locomotive) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.