This list provides an overview of the motive power operated by

Deutsche Bahn The (; abbreviated as DB or DB AG) is the national railway company of Germany. Headquartered in the Bahntower in Berlin, it is a joint-stock company ( AG). The Federal Republic of Germany is its single shareholder. describes itself as the se ...

. It only includes those vehicles that have been in service with the Deutsche Bahn AG since its formation on 1 January 1994. The classes are numbered according to the

locomotive classification of the Deutsche Bundesbahn Originally, both Deutsche Bundesbahn and Deutsche Reichsbahn of the GDR, Deutsche Reichsbahn continued the classification system of the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft, Deutsche Reichsbahn (DRG) – see also a short overview of the Numbering s ...

, which had been adopted by Deutsche Bahn in 1994. Since 2007, classifications for all German railway companies are centrally issued by the

Federal Railway Office The German Federal Railway Authority (german: Eisenbahn-Bundesamt, ) has been the independent federal authority for the regulation of the railways in Germany since 1 January 1994. It is under the supervision and direction of the Federal Minist ...

in line with UIC classification rules.

Steam locomotives

Several narrow gauge steam locomotives were taken over by Deutsche Bahn, which until 2004 were handed over to communal services or

heritage railway A heritage railway or heritage railroad (US usage) is a railway operated as living history to re-create or preserve railway scenes of the past. Heritage railways are often old railway lines preserved in a state depicting a period (or periods) i ...

Steam locomotives

Electric locomotives

Diesel locomotives

Minor locomotives

Electric multiple units

Accumulator Cars

Diesel multiple units

Railway works vehicles

See also