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GwL

🇩🇪 Germany ·built by Unknown builder· The GwL class vans of the Royal Bavarian State Railways were goods vans built for branch lines in the Kingdom of Bavaria in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

what is it?

The GwL class vans of the Royal Bavarian State Railways were goods vans built for branch lines in the Kingdom of Bavaria in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

who runs it

base stats

  • built 258made 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.

spec sheet

built
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number built
258
kind
carriage / wagon
origin
🇩🇪 Germany
builders
Unknown builder
operators
Royal Bavarian State Railways, Deutsche Reichsbahn
top speed
—
power
—
gauge
1,435 mm standard gauge

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

Sources: Wikidata Q111181744, Wikipedia: GwL (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.

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