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NSB Class 88
🇳🇴 Norway ·built by Strømmens Værksted· from 1945· class of Norwegian diesel-hydraulic multiple units
what is it?
NSB Class 88 was a class of six three-car diesel-hydraulic multiple units built by Strømmens Værksted for the Norwegian State Railways. Derived from the German DRG Class SVT 877, the trains were the diesel counterpart of Class 66. The trains were built as express trains on the Bergen Line and the Dovre Line, serving the routes from Oslo to Bergen and Trondheim.
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 81 years ago, in 1945.
- 900 kW is about 11 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 7 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 22.3 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 145: 3 full city buses (~50 seats each).
- Served for 28 years (1945–1973).
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1945
- in service from
- 1945
- retired
- 1973
- status
- retired
- number built
- 6
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇳🇴 Norway
- builders
- Strømmens Værksted
- operators
- Norges Statsbaner
- top speed
- 120 km/h
- power
- 900 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- formation
- 3 cars
- length
- 22.3 m
- weight
- 42.5 t
- capacity
- 145 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q256505, Wikipedia: NSB Class 88 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.