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 typeDiesel-hydraulic
BuilderGanz Mavag
ModelDHM 12
Build date1983
Total produced38
Specifications
Gauge1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3⁄8 in)
Fuel typeDiesel
TransmissionDiesel-hydraulic
CouplersNorwegian Coupling
Performance figures
Maximum speed72 km/h (45 mph)
Power output800 hp
Career
OperatorsBangladesh Railway
ClassMHZ-8
Numbers3301-3338
Disposition1 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.

  • 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.

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