🚆 multiple unit retired
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Diesel railcar "Ganz" 82.01, Bansko, Bulgaria 05: Спасимир· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The vehicles of the BDŽ class 05 04-07 (later class 82 01-04) were four-axle Diesel–mechanical railcars for the 760 mm narrow-gauge railways of the Bulgarian State Railways (BDŽ).
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 74 years ago, in 1952.
- Weighs about as much as 5 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 17 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 25 years (1952–1977).
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1952
- in service from
- 1952
- retired
- 1977
- status
- retired
- number built
- 4
- kind
- multiple unit
- origin
- 🇭🇺 Hungary
- builders
- Ganz Works
- top speed
- 50 km/h
- power
- —
- length
- 17 m
- weight
- 28.3 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q29608356, Wikipedia: BDŽ class 82 01-04 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.