Bangladesh Railway Class 3300

Bangladesh Railway Class 3300 is a class of metre-gauge diesel-hydraulic locomotive in Bangladesh, operated by Bangladesh Railway. They are the first metre-gauge diesel-hydraulic locomotives of Bangladesh.

Bangladesh Railway Class 3300
Locomotive 3309 at Parbatipur
Type and origin Power type Diesel-hydraulic Builder Ganz Mavag Model DHM 12 Build date 1983 Total produced 38
Specifications Gauge 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 ^3⁄8 in) Fuel type Diesel Transmission Diesel-hydraulic Couplers Norwegian Coupling
Performance figures Maximum speed 72 km/h (45 mph) Power output 800 hp
Career Operators Bangladesh Railway Class MHZ-8 Numbers 3301-3338 Disposition 1 active

Details

Bangladesh Railway purchased 80 diesel-hydraulic locomotives from Ganz Mavag, Budapest, Hungary within 1980-82.[1][2] Among them, 60 were metre-gauge locomotives. Among them, 38 were Class 3300 locomotives classified as MHZ-8,[3] where M = Metre-gauge, H = Diesel-hydraulic, Z = Ganz Mavag and 8 = 8×100 hp = 800 hp. It is basically a more powerful version of Class 3200 locomotives.

Usage

These 800 hp locomotives were not used for mainline duty, only used for shunting.[4] This was not a successful locomotive class. Only 1 locomotive of this class are currently in service.

Gallery

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  Locomotive 3329 at Parbatipur

References

1. "History". cosmopolitanbd.com. Retrieved 2020-04-24.
2. "Railway goes backward". The Daily Star. 2012-12-22. Retrieved 2020-04-24.
3. "Final Report on Rolling Stock Maintenance" (PDF). Asian Development Bank.
4. "3 Analysis of Problems" (PDF). railway.portal.gov.bd.

External links

Media related to Bangladesh Railway Class 3300 at Wikimedia Commons