🚃 carriage / wagon retired
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what is it?
The Linke-Hofmann-Busch local traffic prototype coaches were a group of passenger carriages of the Deutsche Bundesbahn.
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 50 years ago, in 1976.
- Top speed is 1.2× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 15 minutes.
- 26.4 m long: about 6 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 22 years (1976–1998).
carriage / wagon: Unpowered passenger coaches or freight wagons, pulled by a locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1976
- in service from
- 1976
- retired
- 1998
- status
- retired
- number built
- 11
- kind
- carriage / wagon
- origin
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- builders
- Linke-Hofmann, Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm
- top speed
- 160 km/h
- power
- —
- length
- 26.4 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1963812, Wikipedia: LHB prototype carriages (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.