Diesel locomotive Diesel–hydraulic locomotives have a smaller market share than those with diesel electric transmission - the main worldwide user of main-line hydraulic transmissions was the Federal Republic of Germany, with designs including the 1950s DB class V 200, and the 1960 and 1970s DB Class V 160 family. British Rail introduced a number of diesel hydraulic designs during it 1955 Modernisation Plan, initially license built versions of German designs (see ). In Spain RENFE used high power to weight ratio twin engined German designs to haul high speed trains from the 1960s to 1990s. (see RENFE Classes 340, 350, 352, 353,
Diesel Locomotive Factory, Marhowra Diesel Locomotive Factory, Marhowra The Diesel Locomotive Factory, Marhaura is a joint venture of GE Global Sourcing India Pvt. Limited of the US with Indian Railways for the production of 1000 high-power freight locomotives over a period of 10 years designed to run on Indian railway tracks. The factory is currently under-construction. This factory will start manufacturing the locomotives from the third quarter of 2018. The first 40 locomotives will be imported, the rest will be manufactured in Marhowra. The company is also setting-up two maintenance depots at Gandhidham in Gujarat and Roza in Uttar Pradesh. During Sep 2013, the