Bangladesh Railway Class 3200 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.
Details
Bangladesh Railway purchased 80 diesel-hydraulic locomotives from Ganz Mavag, Budapest, Hungary within 1980-82. Among them, 60 were metre-gauge locomotives. Among them, 22 were Class 3200 locomotives classified as MHZ-5, where M = Metre-gauge, H = Diesel-hydraulic, Z = Ganz Mavag and 5 = 5×100 hp = 500 hp.
Usage
These 500 hp locomotives were not used for mainline duty, only used for shunting. This was not a successful locomotive class. Only 2 locomotives of this class are currently in service.
Top Speed - 60km/h
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