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Bangladesh Railway Class 2000
🇨🇦 Canada ·built by General Motors Diesel· from 1953· diesel locomotive class of Bangladesh
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- 1. BR 2021: Ifthekhar Omer· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
Bangladesh Railway Class 2000 is the earliest meter-gauge diesel electric locomotive class of Bangladesh Railway. These locomotives have been in service since 1953 which make them the oldest running locomotives in the history of Bangladesh Railway. A total of 40 locomotives of this class were imported.
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 73 years ago, in 1953.
- 839 kW is about 10 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
- 1953–1956
- number built
- 40
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇨🇦 Canada
- builders
- General Motors Diesel
- designer
- Electro Motive Division
- operators
- Eastern Bengal Railway, Bangladesh Railway
- top speed
- —
- power
- 839 kW
- gauge
- 1,000 mm metre gauge
- wheel arrangement
- (A1A)(A1A)
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q39056200, Wikipedia: Bangladesh Railway Class 2000 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.