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BDŽ class 75
🇧🇬 Bulgaria ·built by Henschel & Sohn· from 1965· narrow-gauge diesel-hydraulic locomotive of Bulgaria
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Diesellokomotive der Rhodopenbahn BDZ Henschel 75006-7 in Beliza IMG 5990: Reneman· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The BDŽ class 75 is a series of Bulgarian narrow-gauge diesel-hydraulic locomotives. The first 760 mm track-side diesel locomotives of the BDŽ were built by the German company Henschel & Sohn of Kassel, and were put into operation in Bulgaria in the beginning of 1966. As soon as they arrived, they became the main narrow-gauge locomotive series at the Septemvri depot, took the passenger (from the series 81 and 82) and the freight (from the 600.76 series locomotives) service on the railway lines Septemvri - Dobrinishte and Varvara - Pazardzhik.
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.
- 820 kW is about 10 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 8 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 13 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1965
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 10
- kind
- Diesel-hydraulic
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇧🇬 Bulgaria
- builders
- Henschel & Sohn
- operators
- Bulgarian State Railways
- top speed
- 70 km/h
- power
- 820 kW
- gauge
- 760 mm narrow gauge
- wheel arrangement
- B'B'
- length
- 13 m
- weight
- 48 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q140240222, Wikipedia: BDŽ class 75 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.