DB Class E 410

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The DB Class E 410 locomotive of the German Federal Railways (DB), also known as DB Class 184, was one of the first four-current electric locomotives 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 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. 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.