Bangladesh Railway now owns basically two types of locomotives viz Diesel Electric(DE) & Diesel Hydraulic (DH). The total fleet as on 30th June 2005 comprised 253 Diesel Electric (68 BG, 185 MG) and 33 Diesel Hydraulic (10 BG & 23 MG) locomotives. The type-wise breakdown of the locomotives during the past years is shown in table No.6.

Pahartali and Dhaka Diesel Workshops undertake repairs of MG Diesel Locomotives while Parbatipur Diesel Workshop undertakes repairs of both BG & MG Diesel Locomotives. Heavy repairs and overhauls of diesel locomotives are done at Central Diesel Workshop, Parbatipur. The existing main line locos are all DE type manufactured by ALCO (USA) , MLW/ Bombardier Inc. (Canada) & Hitachi (Japan) for BG and General Motors (USA/Canada), MLW (Canada), Hitachi (Japan), ABB Henschel (Germany), DLW (India) and Hyundai(S. Korea) for MG.

At the end of the year 2004-2005, BR had a total of 1,406 coaching vehicles out of which 1,344 are for conveyance of passengers and 62 are for conveyance of luggage, parcels, mails etc. as well as for departmental use. The gauge-wise breakdown of passenger carriages and other coaching vehicles owned by BR over the past years is furnished in Table No. 7.

At the end of the year 2004-2005, BR had a total of 10,236 wagons comprising 7,310 covered, 1,115 open and 1,811 special type wagons. The gauge-wise breakdown of the wagons owned by BR over the past years is given in Table No.12.

Bangladesh Railway has entered into a new era in transportation of freight traffic in containers from Chittagong to Dhaka. Special type Flat Wagons required for container movement were initially arranged by converting some existing wagons. Subsequently 80 bogie container flats were procured from China and another 100 bogie container flats were procured from India.An Inland Container Depot has been opened at Dhaka with custom and port facilities for clearance of container traffic. Exclusive container train was introduced on 5th August,1991. Since then, volume of container traffic gained momentum.

Bangladesh Railway has sheds, depots and workshops for maintenance o1 Rolling Stock, Locomotives are maintanied in 3(Three) places viz shed shop & CLW, Carriage & Wagons are maintained in two places i.e. in C&W Depot & workshop.

1. Central Locomotive Workshop at Parbatipur, Dinajpur(CLW)
2. Diesel Workshop at Pahartali, Chittagong.
3. Diesel Workshop, Dhaka.
4. Diesel Workshop at Parbatipur,Dinajpur.

1. C & W Shop at Saidpur, Nilphamari.
2. C&W shop at Pahartali, Chittagong.

There were 25 marine vessels under Mechanical Department at the end of 2004-2005. The fleet of the marine vessels consists of 2 Passenger vessels, 4 Tugs, 4 Wagon Ferry Barges, 5 Pontoon ramps, 5 Flats and 5 Berthing flats.