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DRG Class ET 85
🇩🇪 Germany ·built by MAN SE· from 1927· class of 39 German electric multiple units
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10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. DRG Baureihe ET 85: Stahlkocher· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. ET 85 07 (14.09.1985): Manfred Kopka· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. DRG Baureihe ET 85 2: Stahlkocher· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 4. DRG Baureihe ET 85 3: Stahlkocher· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 5. ET 85 (DB): Frank Nowotny· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 6. ET 85 07 (08.10.1985): Manfred Kopka· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 7. ET 85 07 auf Gleisen der Ruhrkohle AG: Manfred Kopka· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 8. ET 85 07: Manfred Kopka· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 9. ET 85 DB: Frank Nowotny· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 10. ET85DRG (485 005 A W): Joachim Lutz· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The DRG Class ET 85 was a German electric motor coach with the Deutsche Reichsbahn and, later, 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 99 years ago, in 1927.
- 550 kW is about 6 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 10 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 20.3 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 50 years (1927–1977).
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1927
- in service from
- 1927
- retired
- 1977
- status
- retired
- number built
- 140
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- builders
- MAN SE, Brown, Boveri & Cie, Waggonfabrik Fuchs
- top speed
- 75 km/h
- power
- 550 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- electric system
- Catenary
- wheel arrangement
- ET: Bo′2′
- length
- 20.3 m
- weight
- 61.4 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q238565, Wikipedia: DRG Class ET 85 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.