#6227· DR1 dieseltreinsteltype
DR1 diesel train
🇱🇻 Latvia ·built by Riga Railway Carriage Building Factory· diesel multiple unit
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10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Kaunas Station (6004806955): FaceMePLS from The Hague, The Netherlands· CC BY 2.0
- 2. Diesel multiple units DR1 in Belarus: Dima Sugonyaev· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3. DR1A of Latvia (41019278264): Liepāja fotogrāfijās from Latvia· Public domain
- 4. DR1A of Latvia (41019280464): Liepāja fotogrāfijās from Latvia· Public domain
- 5. DR1A of Latvia (41019281494): Liepāja fotogrāfijās from Latvia· Public domain
- 6. DR1A of Latvia (41019281874): Liepāja fotogrāfijās from Latvia· Public domain
- 7. DR1A-229-3 kabiin: TaivoIn· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 8. Janiw - DR1P 03: Paweł 'pbm' Szubert ( talk )· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 9. Chornobyl DSC 0438 12: Antanana· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 10. Chornobyl DSC 0438 39: Antanana· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The DR1 (Russian: Дизельпоезд Рижский 1) (English: Diesel-train Riga 1) diesel trainset was manufactured by Rīgas Vagonbūves Rūpnīca from 1963 to 1998. In 2025 DR1 trainsets (different modifications) are still in use in Georgia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine. They remained in use by Edelaraudtee in Estonia until 2014 and by Russian Railways in Russia until 2016.
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
- Weighs about as much as 15 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 154 m long: about 34 cars parked nose to tail.
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- —
- number built
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- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇱🇻 Latvia
- builders
- Riga Railway Carriage Building Factory
- operators
- Latvian Railways
- top speed
- 120 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,520 mm Russian broad gauge
- length
- 154 m
- weight
- 90 t
- Dutch name
- DR1 dieseltreinsteltype
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q904600, Wikipedia: DR1 diesel train (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.