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Henschel-BBC DE2500
🇩🇪 Germany ·built by Henschel & Sohn· from 1971· class of 3 German diesel-electric locomotives
3 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Henschel-BBC DE2500: Flodur44· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. DE2500-UMAN: Benedikt Dohmen ( User:Benedictus ), Archiv-Nr. 45/2· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3. Henschel-BBC DE2500 202-003: alex26· CC BY 3.0
what is it?
The DB Class 202, also commonly referred to under its manufacturers' designation Henschel-BBC DE2500, since it was only in experimental use and never purchased by the DB, is a class of diesel-electric locomotives designed for use on main and secondary lines for both passenger and freight 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 55 years ago, in 1971.
- Top speed is 1.9× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 10 minutes.
- 1.9 MW is about 22 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 13 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 18 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
high-speed train: Built for 200–350 km/h on dedicated lines, like the TGV, ICE or Shinkansen.
spec sheet
- built
- 1971–1974
- in service from
- 1971
- number built
- 3
- kind
- Diesel-Electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- builders
- Henschel & Sohn, Brown, Boveri & Cie, MTU Friedrichshafen
- operators
- Deutsche Bahn
- top speed
- 250 km/h
- power
- 1.9 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- electric system
- 3-phase rotary current (002, 003, 004), 1.5 kV DC Catenary (003 UmAn version)
- wheel arrangement
- Bo′Bo′ (003)
- length
- 18 m
- weight
- 80 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1607534, Wikipedia: Henschel-BBC DE2500 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.