#3420· Baureihe 211
DB Class V 100
🇩🇪 Germany ·built by Maschinenbau Kiel· from 1958· German diesel powered locomotive
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10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. EMN V 211 01 mannheim 100 0447: No machine-readable author provided. LosHawlos assumed (based on copyright claims).· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. Baureihe 211 101-1 1: MPW57· Public domain
- 3. V100 ALS BR 214 - Karlsruhe: H. Zell· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 4. 19861223 V 100: Roehrensee· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. AIXrail V100 211 345 -- Aachen-West: Jan Derk Remmers· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 6. Baureihe 211 in Thüringen: holger mohaupt· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 7. Baureihe V100 Krauthausen: KlausMiniwolf· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 8. Diesellok Baureihe 212: KlausMiniwolf· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 9. Diesellok der Baureihe 211 und Akkutriebwagen der Baureihe 515.jpg Düren Hauptbahnhof: KlausMiniwolf· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 10. 212 007-9 (Flickr 13933200104): Rob Dammers· CC BY 2.0
what is it?
These DB Class V 100 diesel locomotives were produced in the late 1950s by the Deutsche Bundesbahn for non-electrified branch lines as a replacement for steam locomotives. The V 100 class was built in three different variants.
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 68 years ago, in 1958.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1958–1963
- number built
- 364
- kind
- Diesel-hydraulic
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- builders
- Maschinenbau Kiel, Arnold Jung Lokomotivfabrik, Deutz AG, Henschel & Sohn, Friedrich Krupp AG, KraussMaffei, Maschinenfabrik Esslingen
- top speed
- 100 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- B′B′
- Dutch name
- Baureihe 211
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q182097, Wikipedia: DB Class V 100 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.