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Bangladesh Railway Class 3000
🇧🇩 Bangladesh ·built by Hyundai Rotem· from 2020· Class of diesel-electric locomotive
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4 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Bangladesh Railway Locomotive No.3010 at Laksham: Ifthekhar Omer· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. Bangladesh Railway Locomotive Class-3000 (3015): HASSAN TANVIN AYON· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. Bangladesh Railway Locomotive Class-3000 (Loco serial 3015): Hassan Tanvin Ayon· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. Bangladesh Railway Locomotive Class-3000 no.3015 (cropped): HASSAN TANVIN AYON· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Bangladesh Railway Class 3000 is a class of meter-gauge diesel-electric locomotives 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 6 years ago, in 2020.
- 1.6 MW is about 19 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 15 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 18.9 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 2020
- status
- in service
- number built
- 30
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇧🇩 Bangladesh
- builders
- Hyundai Rotem
- designer
- Electro Motive Diesel
- operators
- Bangladesh Railway
- top speed
- 120 km/h
- power
- 1.6 MW
- gauge
- 1,000 mm metre gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Bo1-1Bo
- length
- 18.9 m
- weight
- 90 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q99969930, Wikipedia: Bangladesh Railway Class 3000 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.