what is it?
The class WDS-3 was a diesel-hydraulic locomotive used by Indian Railways for shunting and doing departmental work. The model name stands for broad gauge (W), diesel (D), shunting (S) 3rd generation (3). The WDS-3 is used mostly in the Northern Railway Zone (NR).
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 65 years ago, in 1961.
- Weighs about as much as 10 African elephants (~6 t each).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1961
- number built
- 7
- kind
- Diesel-hydraulic
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- builders
- Maschinenbau Kiel
- top speed
- 65 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,676 mm Indian broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- C
- weight
- 57 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q96382105, Wikipedia: Indian locomotive class WDS-3 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.