#5036· Dieselmaterieel '90
NS DM 90
🇳🇱 Netherlands ·built by Waggonfabrik Talbot· from 1996· diesel multiple unit
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10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. DM 90 Zutphen 2010: User:Willem_90· Public domain
- 2. DM'90 2010 Routes: Chris0693· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3. DM'90 te Voorst-Empe: Niels Karsdorp, Dh3201· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 4. DM90 Zagorz pazdziernik 2022: Miloszgas· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. DM '90 Apeldoorn: Martijnvanvulpen· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 6. Dm90: The original uploader was Naaldenberg at Dutch Wikipedia . ( Original text: M.F.Naaldenberg )· Attribution
- 7. Dm90 dronrijp: Martijnvanvulpen· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 8. Dm90buffelsyntus: The original uploader was Naaldenberg at Dutch Wikipedia .· Attribution
- 9. Afscheid van DM '90 Fotostop op het spoorviaduct van Bareveld (39663859174): m66roepers from Nederland· CC BY 2.0
- 10. Borne NS DM90 3433 als Sprinter 7954 naar Zwolle (27732191373): Rob Dammers· CC BY 2.0
what is it?
The NS Class 3400, referred to as DM'90, was a series of diesel multiple unit which were in service in the Netherlands between 1996 and 2017 and were built by Duewag, Talbot and SIG between 1996 and 1998. They were operated by the Nederlandse Spoorwegen and between 1999 until 2014 under lease by Syntus. DM'90, their classification, means diesel rolling stock (Diesel Materieel in Dutch) of the 1990s or Buffel, which means Buffalo.
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 30 years ago, in 1996.
- Top speed is 1.1× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- 640 kW is about 8 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 16 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 52.3 m long: about 12 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 135: 3 full city buses (~50 seats each).
- Still in service after 30 years.
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1996
- in service from
- 1996
- status
- in service
- number built
- 53
- kind
- Diesel multiple unit
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇳🇱 Netherlands
- builders
- Waggonfabrik Talbot
- operators
- Nederlandse Spoorwegen, PKP Intercity, Stowarzyszenie Kolejowych Przewozów Lokalnych
- top speed
- 140 km/h
- power
- 640 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2'B' + B'2'
- formation
- 2 cars per unit
- length
- 52.3 m
- weight
- 95.2 t
- capacity
- 135 passengers
- Dutch name
- Dieselmaterieel '90
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1961351, Wikipedia: NS DM 90 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.