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Bangladesh Railway Class 2200
🇧🇩 Bangladesh ·built by General Motors Diesel· from 1961· Bangladeshi train
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Train at the Battali Railwaystation in Chittagong 01: Kritzolina· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
Bangladesh Railway Class 2200 is a class of metre-gauge diesel-electric locomotives operated by Bangladesh Railway. A total of 41 locomotives of this class entered the fleet of the then Eastern Bengal Railway in 1961 and 1963. Upon introduction, these locomotives were used in almost all types of passenger trains.
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 65 years ago, in 1961.
- 652 kW is about 8 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 11 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 11 m long: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
- Still in service after 65 years.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1961–1963
- in service from
- 1961
- status
- in service
- number built
- 41
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇧🇩 Bangladesh
- builders
- General Motors Diesel
- designer
- Electro-Motive Division
- operators
- Bangladesh Railway
- top speed
- 124 km/h
- power
- 652 kW
- gauge
- 1,000 mm metre gauge
- wheel arrangement
- A1A-A1A
- length
- 11 m
- weight
- 64 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q139499398, Wikipedia: Bangladesh Railway Class 2200 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.