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DB Class V 80 (280) 
Number(s): DB V 80 001–010 Quantity: 10 Manufacturer: MaK, Krauss-Maffei Year(s) of manufacture: 1952 Retired: 1978 Axle arrangement: B'B' Gauge: 1,435 mm Length over buffers: 12,800 mm Service weight: 58.0 t Adhesive weight: 58.0 t Axle load: 14.5 t Top speed: 100 km/h Installed power: 810 kW Starting tractive effort: 190 kN Power index: 14 kW/t Motor make/model: 1×12 cylinder Power transmission: hydraulic Tank capacity: 2.250 l Drive: diesel-hydraulic Brakes: compressed air brake The Class V 80 is a type of German diesel locomotive operated by the Deutsche Bundesbahn, that was redesignated as Class 280 from 1968.
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History
This type of locomotive was the first newly developed diesel locomotive built for main line service by the Deutsche Bundesbahn (DB). Only 10 examples of the class were built at the beginning of the 1950s, but it formed the basis for all subsequent DB designs in this sector.
The locomotives were initially distributed to the locomotive depots (Bahnbetriebswerke) at Frankfurt am Main and Bamberg. In Frankfurt/Main they were used on suburban services from Frankfurt/Main Hbf to Bad Homburg v.d.Höhe and to Kronberg and also hauled fast-stopping trains (Eilzüge) between Frankfurt/Main and Cologne. The Bamberg engines were used on Nuremberg’s suburban services and on various branch lines around Bamberg. From 1963 all the locos were gathered together at Bamberg and took over passenger and goods train duties on many branch lines in northern Bavaria.
The demise of branch lines in the 1970s meant that the DB could get rid of this small class of just 10 engines between 1976 and 1978, because sufficient locomotives of the comparable Class V 100 were available.
Design
A classic feature of these engines was the driver’s cab in the centre of the vehicle which could be used in both directions and which jutted out above the engine rooms. In the basic design the V 80 had elements, that were also used on all succeeding diesel locomotive classes: a diesel engine that ran at medium-speed, hydraulic gears, power transmission via the centre axle by means of universal joints. Originally three different motors were fitted with 800 to 1000 PS; later 1,100 PS MTU motors were installed. All were supercharged V12 four-stroke diesel engines.
Preserved
Remains of several of the burnt out locos in the museum’s locomotive shed, the V80 at the back
The locomotives of Class 280 were largely sold to private railways and to track construction firms in Italy. One example, no. V 80 002, which the DB kept as a museum piece, was a victim of the big fire at the Nuremberg Transport Museum on 17 October 2005.
Since mid-October 2005 the first V 80 built by Krauss-Maffei has returned to Germany. No. V 80 001 was bought from a collector, who also owned the museum locomotive 212 203, and transferred from Italy back to Germany. It is intended to carry out a refurbishment of the locomotive as quickly as possible, so it can be made available as a museum locomotive.
As a replacement for V 80 002 which was burnt out in 2005 the DB Museum was given the last V 80 to be built, no. V 80 005, in June 2008 by its Italian owner in exchange for a Class 216 locomotive.
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References
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External links
- The V 80
- 280 001-9
- There is a relevant English-language forum at Railways of Germany
Classes of German diesel locomotives Deutsche Bundesbahn (pre-1994)
see also DB locomotives
Deutsche Reichsbahn (GDR) (pre-1994)
see also DR locomotivesDeutsche Bahn AG (post-1994)
see also DBAG locomotives1st generation
1954 - 1967240 B · 240 C · 400C · 450 C · 600 D · 650 D · 800 D · 850 D · 1000 D · 1200 D2nd generation
1965 - 1978G 320 B · G 500 C · G 700 C · G 850 BB · G 1100 BB3rd generation
1977 - presentLight shuntersG 321 B · G 322 · G 761 C · G 762 C · G 763 C · G 764 C · G 765 · DE 501 · DE 502Heavy shunters/Light locomotivesG 1201 BB · G 1202 BB · G 1203 BB · G 1204 BB · G 1205 · G 1206/G 1206-2 · DE 1002 · DE 1003 · DE 10044th generation
2001 - presentLight shuntersG 400 BHeavy shunters/Light locomotivesLine locomotives5th generation
2008 - presentLight shuntersHeavy shunters/Light locomotivesTCDD DH33100 · SJ Tp / T23 ·
NS 6400 · 
NSB Di 6 / Dispolok ME 26 · NSB Di 8 · 
SNCB HLD 77
and 
locomotivesExperimental locomotives and rebuilts Locomotive types in italics are in production. G-type locomotives have diesel-hydraulic transmissions, DE-type locomotives have diesel-electric transmissions. Categories:- Diesel locomotives of Germany
- Deutsche Bundesbahn locomotives
- B-B locomotives
- MaK locomotives
- Krauss-Maffei locomotives
- Railway locomotives introduced in 1952
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