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Bangladesh Railway Class 2500
🇧🇩 Bangladesh ·built by Hitachi· from 1982· class of diesel-electric locomotives
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1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Bangladesh Railway Hitachi HFA13A '2513' (29211137386): Shadman Samee from Dhaka, Bangladesh· CC BY-SA 2.0
what is it?
Bangladesh Railway Class 2500 is a class of metre-gauge diesel-electric locomotives operated by Bangladesh Railway. Built by Hitachi of Japan in 1982, a total of 18 units were produced. Classified as MEH-14, the locomotives are powered by an ALCO 251B-6 engine producing 1,400 hp (1,000 kW).
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 44 years ago, in 1982.
- 1 MW is about 12 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 12 African elephants (~6 t each).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1982
- number built
- 18
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇧🇩 Bangladesh
- builders
- Hitachi
- operators
- Bangladesh Railway
- top speed
- 96 km/h
- power
- 1 MW
- gauge
- 1,000 mm metre gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co-Co
- weight
- 72 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q93771173, Wikipedia: Bangladesh Railway Class 2500 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.