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D18E
🇧🇪 Belgium ·built by La Brugeoise et Nivelles· from 1983· class of 18 diesel-electric locomotives
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2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. D18E-615 Da Nang: Tobias b köhler· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. 2013-07-16 D18E-609,North–South Railway (Vietnam) DSCF9694: 松岡明芳· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The D18E, is a series of Belgian-built diesel locomotives used on the Vietnamese railway network since the 1980s.
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 43 years ago, in 1983.
- Weighs about as much as 18 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 15.5 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1983
- number built
- 16
- kind
- Diesel
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇧🇪 Belgium
- builders
- La Brugeoise et Nivelles, Cockerill-Sambre, Ateliers de Constructions Electriques de Charleroi
- operators
- Vietnam Railways
- top speed
- 105 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,000 mm metre gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co'Co'
- length
- 15.5 m
- weight
- 108 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q18226403, Wikipedia: D18E (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.