#5831· RATP MS 61
MS 61
🇫🇷 France ·built by Alstom Crespin· from 2016· class of French suburban electric multiple units
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10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Ms61R xoud boissy: Eole99· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. Dernier MS61 à Joinville (2) par Cramos: Cramos· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3. MS61 Rénové 3: Eole99· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 4. MS61 Rénové 5: Eole99· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 5. MS61 Z23237: MatthieuCastet· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 6. Ms61 reuil: Eole99· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 7. Panneau ligne MS61R: CédricGravelle· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 8. Rame MS61 rénovée - 2012-06-26 - IMG 2797: Poudou99· CC BY 3.0
- 9. MS 61 on RER A: Smiley.toerist· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 10. MS-61 à Massy-Verrières: Emmmeuge· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The MS 61 (French: Matériel Suburbain de 1961, English: Suburban rolling stock of 1961) was an electric multiple unit trainset that was operated on line A and line B of the Réseau Express Régional (RER), a hybrid suburban commuter and rapid transit system serving Paris and its Île-de-France suburbs. The MS 61 borrowed many elements from the Z 23000 railcars built for the Ligne de Sceaux (a predecessor of the RER B), including four pairs of doors on each side of the cars for fast boarding of passengers at stations, but the MS 61 was capable of speeds of up to 100 km/h (62 mph) compared to 80 km/h (50 mph) for the Z 23000. Unlike later rolling stock for the RER lines, the MS 61 lacked dual-voltage capabilities and could only use the RATP's 1.5 kV DC electrical system, limiting them to only operating between Saint-Germain-en-Laye and Boissy-Saint-Léger or Marne-la-Vallée–Chessy on the RER A
who runs it
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
- First built 10 years ago, in 2016.
- 1.6 MW is about 19 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 25 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 73.2 m long: about 16 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 292: 6 full city buses (~50 seats each).
- Served for 49 years (1967–2016).
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 2016
- in service from
- 1967
- retired
- 2016
- status
- retired
- number built
- 127
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇫🇷 France
- builders
- Alstom Crespin, Brissonneau et Lotz, Alstom Petite-Forêt, Ateliers de Construction du Nord de la France
- operators
- RATP
- top speed
- 100 km/h
- power
- 1.6 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- formation
- 3 cars per trainset
- length
- 73.2 m
- weight
- 148 t
- capacity
- 292 passengers
- Dutch name
- RATP MS 61
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q2138216, Wikipedia: MS 61 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.