#3550
DSB Class MX
🇩🇰 Denmark ·built by Nydqvist och Holm AB· from 1960· class of 45 Danish A1A-A1A diesel locomotives
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. DSB Locomotive Mx1006 pic3: Alf van Beem· CC0
- 2. DSB Locomotive Mx1006 pic4: Alf van Beem· CC0
what is it?
The DSB Class MX is a lightweight, diesel-electric locomotive built by the Swedish company Nydqist & Holm between 1960 and 1962 for the Danish State Railways
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 66 years ago, in 1960.
- 1.1 MW is about 13 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 15 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 18.3 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 33 years (1960–1993).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1960–1962
- in service from
- 1960
- retired
- 1993
- status
- retired
- number built
- 45
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇩🇰 Denmark
- builders
- Nydqvist och Holm AB
- operators
- DSB
- top speed
- 133 km/h
- power
- 1.1 MW
- wheel arrangement
- (A1A)(A1A)
- length
- 18.3 m
- weight
- 89 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q901000, Wikipedia: DSB Class MX (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.