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DB Class 240
🇩🇪 Germany ·built by Maschinenbau Kiel· from 1989· class/model of 3 German diesel-electric locomotives
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what is it?
The DB Class 240 are a class of Co′Co′ diesel-electric locomotives which were produced in the 1980s by MaK in collaboration with Krupp and ABB as DE 1024 as prototypes/technology demonstrators for a possible future order from the Deutsche Bundesbahn. Three units were made, but no orders arose, at least in part due to the Reunification of Germany making similarly specified DR Class 132s available in large numbers.
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 37 years ago, in 1989.
- 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.
- 2.7 MW is about 31 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 20 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 21 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
- Still in service after 37 years.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1989
- in service from
- 1989
- status
- in service
- number built
- 3
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- builders
- Maschinenbau Kiel, Friedrich Krupp AG, ABB Group
- operators
- Deutsche Bundesbahn, Stadtwerke Köln
- top speed
- 160 km/h
- power
- 2.7 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co′Co′
- length
- 21 m
- weight
- 117 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q321738, Wikipedia: DB Class 240 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.