#6088
New Zealand DM class locomotive
🇪🇸 Spain ·built by Stadler Rail· from 2026· type of diesel-electric locomotives being manufactured for KiwiRail
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. KiwiRail DM8029 freight train Cairo Maguire 2025: Cairo Maguire· CC BY 4.0
what is it?
The New Zealand DM class of 66 diesel-electric locomotives is currently under manufacture for New Zealand rail operator KiwiRail by Stadler Rail in Spain. The locomotives are expected to be introduced between 2025 and 2026. The first two locomotives arrived in October 2024 to commence testing and commissioning, with the first locomotive, DM8029, entering service on 21 July 2025.
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 0 years ago, in 2026.
- 3 MW is about 35 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 18 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 20 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 2026
- in service from
- 2026
- number built
- 66
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇪🇸 Spain
- builders
- Stadler Rail
- operators
- KiwiRail, New Zealand Railways Corporation
- top speed
- 100 km/h
- power
- 3 MW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co′Co′
- length
- 20 m
- weight
- 108 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q109236751, Wikipedia: New Zealand DM class locomotive (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.