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DB Class V 162
🇩🇪 Germany ·built by Friedrich Krupp AG· from 1965· class of 15 German diesel-hydraulic locomotives with auxiliary diesel engines for electric train supply
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what is it?
The DB Class V 162 (after 1968 named DB Class 217) is a class of four-axle diesel hydraulic locomotive built as a development of the DB Class V 160 for the Deutsche Bundesbahn from 1965 to 1968. This variant has a separate diesel engine providing auxiliary power and for electric train heating, replacing the steam generator in the original V 160. The locomotives continued to be used after the formation of the Deutsche Bahn AG in 1994; the final DB Schenker unit was withdrawn in December 1997.
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 61 years ago, in 1965.
- Top speed is 1.1× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- 1.4 MW is about 17 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 13 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 16.4 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 46 years (1965–2011).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1965–1968
- in service from
- 1965
- retired
- 2011
- status
- retired
- number built
- 15
- kind
- Diesel-hydraulic
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- builders
- Friedrich Krupp AG, Brown, Boveri & Cie, AEG, Siemens, Lokomotiv- und Waggonbaufabrik Krupp
- operators
- Deutsche Bundesbahn
- top speed
- 140 km/h
- power
- 1.4 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Bo′Bo′
- length
- 16.4 m
- weight
- 79 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q137556, Wikipedia: DB Class V 162 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.