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DR Class 252

German electric locomotive class

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 21, 2026
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The DR Class 252 was the last new development of an electric locomotive for the Deutsche Reichsbahn. It was intended as a supplement to the Class 250, and in further series as a successor to the Class 251 locomotives on the Rübelandbahn and as a locomotive for transit traffic with a maximum speed of 160 km/h, which was to be used on the West Berlin-Hannover main line via Berlin-Staaken-Oebisfelde, which was to be expanded.

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This entry incorporates text from “DR Class 252” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.