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DB Cargo Company Train
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by SNC-Lavalin Rail & Transit· special train owned by DB Cargo UK
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. EWS Company-train Cottrell: Janet Cottrell· CC BY-SA 2.5
what is it?
The DB Cargo Company Train (formerly the DB Schenker Company Train and the EWS Company Train) is a special train operated in the United Kingdom by freight operator DB Cargo UK (formerly DB Schenker Rail (UK) formerly English Welsh & Scottish), a division of Deutsche Bahn. It was built as an inspection saloon replacement, and is also used to entertain corporate clients. The train cost £3 million and took only nine months from concept to completion.
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
- Top speed is 1.4× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 14 minutes.
- Weighs about as much as 42 African elephants (~6 t each).
carriage / wagon: Unpowered passenger coaches or freight wagons, pulled by a locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
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- number built
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- kind
- carriage / wagon
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- SNC-Lavalin Rail & Transit
- operators
- DB Cargo UK
- top speed
- 177 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2'2'+2'2'+2'2'+2'2'+Bo'Bo'
- formation
- 5 vehicles
- weight
- 253 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5204444, Wikipedia: DB Cargo Company Train (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.