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Bombardier RegioSwinger
🇩🇪 Germany ·built by Adtranz· Tilting train, manufactured by Adtranz and used in Germany and Croatia
3 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Br 612 mit aktiver Neigetechnik: Leofel92· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. DBAG Class 612: Sebastian Terfloth User:Sese_Ingolstadt· CC BY-SA 2.5
- 3. HŽ series 7123: Modswag· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The RegioSwinger is a tilting diesel multiple unit (DMU) passenger train used for fast regional traffic on unelectrified lines.
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- Top speed is 1.2× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 15 minutes.
- 560 kW is about 7 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 19 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 51.8 m long: about 12 cars parked nose to tail.
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- —
- number built
- 192
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- builders
- Adtranz, LEW Hennigsdorf, ALSTOM Transportation Germany
- top speed
- 160 km/h
- power
- 560 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2'B'+B'2'
- length
- 51.8 m
- weight
- 116 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
family
Sources: Wikidata Q5204383, Wikipedia: Bombardier RegioSwinger (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.