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Bangladesh Railway Class 2900
🇧🇩 Bangladesh ·built by Hyundai Rotem· from 1999· Diesel electric locomotive class
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2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. BR 2902: Ifthekhar Omer· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. Class 2900 Locomotive (2938): AhnafZarif· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Bangladesh Railway Class 2900 is a class of meter-gauge diesel electric locomotive operated by the Bangladesh Railway.
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 27 years ago, in 1999.
- 1.1 MW is about 13 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
- 1999–2013
- number built
- 39
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇧🇩 Bangladesh
- builders
- Hyundai Rotem
- designer
- Electro Motive Division
- operators
- Bangladesh Railway
- top speed
- 107 km/h
- power
- 1.1 MW
- weight
- 72 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q39056154, Wikipedia: Bangladesh Railway Class 2900 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.