DBAG Class 641

Deutsche Bahn AG Class 641
A Class 641 at Gräfenroda
In service	1999 onwards
Manufacturer	Alstom LHB
Family name	Coradia
Number built	372
Formation	1 car per trainset
Capacity	80 (55 standard, 8 first, 17 tip seats)
Operator(s)	Deutsche Bahn SNCF CFL
Specifications
Car length	28.9 m (94 ft 10 in)
Width	2.9 m (9 ft 6 in)
Height	3.7 m (12 ft 2 in)
Maximum speed	75 mph (120 km/h)
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8 ¹⁄₂ in) standard gauge

The DBAG Class 641 (VT641) is a class of German railway vehicle operated by Deutsche Bahn AG (DBAG). They are diesel railcars belonging to the Alstom Coradia A TER family. Their development started as a joint project between DBAG and the French national railway, SNCF, on the one hand, and the railway vehicle manufacturers De Dietrich Ferroviaire and Linke-Hofmann-Busch on the other. They were manufactured by these firms under their present-day names of Alstom LHB and Alstom DDF, both of which belong to Alstom.

Forty units of this class were delivered to Deutsche Bahn AG, of which 4 have been retired due to accidents.

The railcars are fitted with centre buffer couplings. The arrangement of the two engines in front of the bogies, the bulging appearance of the coach body and the large, one-piece, swinging doors give the vehicle its characteristic appearance, which has earnt it the nickname Walfisch (Whale).

They are deployed in Baden-Württemberg at Hochrhein – between Basel Badischer Bahnhof and Lauchringen – and in Thuringia at Erfurt, on lines including the Schwarzatalbahn between Rottenbach and Katzhütte, on the Pfefferminzbahn between Sömmerda and Großheringen, the Friedrichroda railway between Friedrichroda and Fröttstädt, on the line from Saalfeld to Blankenstein and the Gotha–Gräfenroda railway.

X 73900 (BR 641) of the SNCF at Strasbourg station working on the Europabahn to Offenburg

Other vehicles of the Alstom Coradia A TER family were delivered from Reichshoffen to the French SNCF and the Luxembourg CFL. These vehicles are classified by the SNCF as ATER 73500. For cross-border traffic between Germany and France a further 19 were procured as ATER 73900, of which two (X 73914 and 73915) were paid for by Saarland and painted traffic red.

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Alstom Coradia family

Coradia 1000 family:	Class 175 Class 180

Coradia Juniper family:	Class 334 Class 458 Class 460

Coradia LINT low-floor family:	DBAG Class 640/648 DBAG Class 641

Coradia Nordic family:	X60/X61/X62

Coradia Duplex family:	SJ X40 SNCF Class Z 26500 CFL Class 2200

Other	X3 (Arlanda Express) SNCF X 73900 SNCF X 73500

Classes of German DMUs

BR number	601 602 605 608 610 611 612 612 alt 613 613 alt 614 618 624 627 628 629 633 634 636 640 641 642 643 644 645 646 648 650 660 670 672 675 690 691 692 699 771 772 795 796 797 798

Pre-1968 classes	VT 04.0 VT 04.1 VT 04.5 VT 06 VT 07.5 VT 08.5 VT 10.5 VT 11.5 VT 12.5 VT 23.5 VT 24 VT 25.5 VT 30 VT 32 VT 33 VT 36.5 VT 38 VT 45.5 VT 46.5 VT 50 VT 51 VT 60.5 VT 62 VT 63 VT 66 VT 69 VT 70 VT 72 VT 75 VT 78 VT 79 VT 86 VT 88 VT 89 VT 90.5 VT 92.5 VT 95 VT 97 VT 98

Old DRG numbers	VT 7 VT 10 VT 20 VT 133 VT 135 VT 137 SVT 137 VT 814 VT 815 SVT 877

DR in the GDR	171 172 173 175 181 183 184 185 186 187 188 VT 2.09 VT 4.12 VT 12.14 VT 18.16

Special trains	Flying Hamburger ICE TD Integral TEE

Diesel railbuses	Esslingen railbus MAN railbus Uerdingen railbus Wismar railbus RegioSprinter

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DBAG Class 641

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