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LHB coach
🇮🇳 India ·built by Indian Railways· from 2000· passenger compartments of Indian Railways that have been developed by Linke-Hofmann-Busch
3 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. LHB Coach of 12017 New Delhi Dehradun Shatabdi Express: Bibek2011· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. LHB AC 3 tier coach of Golden Temple Mail: Ravi Dwivedi· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. LHB coach of Lucknow Mail: Twesh· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
Linke-Hofmann-Busch (LHB) coach is a passenger rail coach developed by Linke-Hofmann-Busch for Indian Railways. Initially, 24 air-conditioned coaches were imported from Germany for use in the Shatabdi Express following which the coaches were manufactured in India. The coaches are manufactured by three state-owned rail coach manufacturing units at Chennai, Kapurthala, and Raebareli.
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 26 years ago, in 2000.
- Top speed is 1.5× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 12 minutes.
- Weighs about as much as 7 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 23.5 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
- Still in service after 26 years.
carriage / wagon: Unpowered passenger coaches or freight wagons, pulled by a locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 2000
- in service from
- 2000
- status
- in service
- number built
- —
- kind
- carriage / wagon
- origin
- 🇮🇳 India
- builders
- Indian Railways, Linke-Hofmann
- designer
- Linke-Hofmann-Busch
- operators
- Indian Railways, Bangladesh Railway, Mozambique Ports and Railways
- top speed
- 200 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,676 mm Indian broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2'2'
- length
- 23.5 m
- weight
- 39.5 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q6458532, Wikipedia: LHB coach (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.