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Indian locomotive class ZDM-2
🇩🇪 Germany ·built by Maschinenbau Kiel· from 1964· class of Indian 762-mm gauge diesel-hydraulic locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. ZDM 2 Diesel locomotive at Solan: generalising from Cambridge, UK· CC BY-SA 2.0
what is it?
The Indian locomotive class ZDM-2 is a series of narrow gauge diesel-hydraulic locomotives built for Indian Railways by the German company Maschinenbau Kiel.
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 62 years ago, in 1964.
- 515 kW is about 6 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1964–1965
- number built
- 25
- kind
- Diesel-hydraulic
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- builders
- Maschinenbau Kiel
- operators
- Indian Railways
- top speed
- 50 km/h
- power
- 515 kW
- gauge
- 762 mm narrow gauge
- wheel arrangement
- B′B′
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q98870439, Wikipedia: Indian locomotive class ZDM-2 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.