DBAG Class 641

Deutsche Bahn Class 641
Deutsche Bahn Class 641
	A Class 641 at Gräfenroda
In service	1999 onwards
Manufacturer	Alstom
Family name	Coradia
Number built	372
Formation	1 car per set
Capacity	80 (55 standard, 8 first, 17 tip seats)
Operators	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)
Coupling system	Scharfenberg
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. They are diesel railcars belonging to the Alstom Coradia A TER family. Their development started as a joint project between Deutsche Bahn and SNCF, on the one hand, and the railway vehicle manufacturers De Dietrich Ferroviaire and Linke-Hofmann-Busch on the other, both being subsidiaries of Alstom.

Forty units of this class were delivered to Deutsche Bahn, of which four 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 earned 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.

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 (73914 and 73915) were paid for by Saarland and painted traffic red.

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v t e 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
Coradia Stream family	ICNG ETR 103/ETR 104
Other	X3 (Arlanda Express) SNCF X 73900 SNCF X 73500

v t e Classes of German DMUs
BR number	601 602 605 608 610 611 612 612 alt 613 613 alt 614 618 624 627 628 629 632 633 633 alt 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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