#3868· Baureihe 184
DB Class E 410
🇩🇪 Germany ·built by Lokomotiv- und Waggonbaufabrik Krupp· from 1966· class of 5 German electric locomotives
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. 184 003 Fürth: Sebastian Terfloth User:Sese_Ingolstadt· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. 184-003: Benedikt Dohmen ( Benedictus )· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The DB Class E 410 locomotive of the German Federal Railways (DB), also known as DB Class 184, was one of the first four-current electric locomotives provided for international services from Germany to France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. Since those rail networks used different electrification systems from the one adopted by German railways, in order to eliminate the downtime generated by the need for traction unit changes at borders the DB central offices in Munich, in cooperation with the German railway industry, built five prototype four-current locomotives all equipped with Krupp mechanical parts. Of them, three were built with an electronically driven traction circuit made by Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft (AEG) and two with a conventionally driven circuit made by Brown Boveri & Cie (BBC).
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 60 years ago, in 1966.
- Top speed is 1.2× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Weighs about as much as 14 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 17 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
electric locomotive: Draws power from overhead wires or a third rail and pulls separate carriages.
spec sheet
- built
- 1966–1967
- number built
- 5
- kind
- Electric
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- builders
- Lokomotiv- und Waggonbaufabrik Krupp
- top speed
- 150 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- electric system
- 15 kV~ 16, 2, 3 Hz, 25 kV~ 50 Hz, 1.5 kV= and 3 kV=
- wheel arrangement
- Bo′Bo′
- length
- 17 m
- weight
- 84 t
- Dutch name
- Baureihe 184
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q319073, Wikipedia: DB Class E 410 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.