DB Class E 410

DB Class E 410
Type and origin Power type Electric Builder Krupp, AEG, BBC Build date 1966-1967 Total produced 5
Specifications Configuration: ​  • UIC Bo′Bo′ Gauge 1435 mm Wheel diameter 1250 mm Wheelbase: ​  • Bogie 3100 mm Length 16950 mm Loco weight 84000 kg Electric system/s 15 kV~ 16⅔ Hz, 25 kV~ 50 Hz, 1.5 kV= and 3 kV= Gear ratio 32:101
Performance figures Maximum speed 150 km/h Power output: ​  • 1 hour 3240 kW  • Continuous 3000 kW Tractive effort 275 kN

The DB Class E 410 locomotive of the German Federal Railroad (DB), also known as DB Class 184, was one of the first four-current electric locomotives^{[note 1]} provided for international services from Germany to France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.

Since those rail networks used different electrification systems from the one adopted by German railways, in order to eliminate the downtime generated by the need for traction unit changes at borders the DB central offices^{[note 2]} in Munich, in cooperation with the German railway industry, built five prototype four-current locomotives all equipped with Krupp mechanical parts.

Of them, three were built with an electronically driven traction circuit made by Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft (AEG) and two with a conventionally driven circuit made by Brown Boveri & Cie (BBC).

The units designed and built by AEG, for the first time in the history of machines intended to cross "electric frontiers," were equipped with thyristor electronic converter electrical equipment.^[1]

The locomotives were delivered between 1966 and 1967 forming the E 410 group, renamed 184 under the new unified classification adopted by DB in 1968. Nicknamed "Europa-Lok," they underwent extensive trials, in Germany and on the networks of other European countries including Italy, and were then used on various domestic and international routes (including those of some Trans Europ Express trains) until the end of the twentieth century.

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