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DBAG Class 225

🇩🇪 Germany ·built by Unknown builder· from 2001· class of 74 German diesel-hydraulic locomotives rebuilt from classes 215 and 218

🛤️ diesel locomotive diesel
9 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
  1. 1. 225053BochumNord: user:Stefan Kunzmann· Public domain
  2. 2. DB 225 086-8 p1: Alf van Beem· CC0
  3. 3. Ladenburg - Bahnhof mit DBAG Class 225 - 2013-03-04 17-27-29: Photographs by Radosław Drożdżewski (User:Zwiadowca21)· CC BY-SA 4.0
  4. 4. 225 094-2 (Flickr 14697784728): Torsten Maue from Magdeburg, Deutschland· CC BY-SA 2.0
  5. 5. 225 094-2 (Flickr 14861404376): Torsten Maue from Magdeburg, Deutschland· CC BY-SA 2.0
  6. 6. 225 094-2 (Flickr 14861405646): Torsten Maue from Magdeburg, Deutschland· CC BY-SA 2.0
  7. 7. 225 094-2 (Flickr 14884381345): Torsten Maue from Magdeburg, Deutschland· CC BY-SA 2.0
  8. 8. 225 FDBT 01 kl: Johannes Martin Conrad· CC BY 3.0
  9. 9. EBM Cargo 225 094 (14861404376): Torsten Maue from Magdeburg, Deutschland· CC BY-SA 2.0
Read about it on Wikipedia ↗
DBAG Class 225, photo 1 of 9
1/9 user:Stefan Kunzmann· Public domain

what is it?

The DBAG Class 225 are a set of related 4 axle diesel hydraulic locomotives from the DB V 160 family. The series does not represent a new build, but a reclassification and/or rebuilding of 1960s and 1970s locomotives of Class 215 and 218 units. The class were transferred to DB Cargo for freight only operations.

who runs it

Deutsche Bahn

base stats

  • speed 140 km/htop speed
  • weight 79 tin working order
  • built 74made in total

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 25 years ago, in 2001.
  • Top speed is 1.1× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
  • Weighs about as much as 13 African elephants (~6 t each).

diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).

spec sheet

built
2001
in service from
2001
number built
74
kind
Diesel-Hydraulic
traction
diesel
origin
🇩🇪 Germany
builders
Unknown builder
operators
Deutsche Bahn
top speed
140 km/h
power
—
gauge
1,435 mm standard gauge
wheel arrangement
B′B′
weight
79 t

From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.

Sources: Wikidata Q263231, Wikipedia: DBAG Class 225 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.

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