#4604· SNCF Z 8800
SNCF Class Z 8800
🇫🇷 France ·built by Alstom Crespin· from 1985· type of double-decker, dual-voltage electric multiple unit trainset
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10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Sncf veri2 stcloud: Eole99· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. Gare de La Verrière 13: Eole99· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3. Sive Z 20500 et Z 8800 RER C: Dudule91· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 4. Z8800R Intérieur 03: Eole99· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 5. Z8800 Intérieur 2: Eole99· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 6. Z 8800 in Choisy-le-Roi, 2019: Mohamed SY· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 7. Deux rames stationnées en gare de Gennevilliers: Skililipappa· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 8. Départ d'une UM2 Z 8800 en livrée Carmillon à quai en gare de Neuilly - Porte-Maillot RER C à la voie 2: Remontees· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 9. Gare de Javel - RER C et Tour Eiffel: Kevin.B· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 10. Gare de Paris-Montparnasse DSC 0494 (49632815088): Cheng-en Cheng from Taichung City, Taiwan· CC BY-SA 2.0
what is it?
The SNCF Class Z 8800 is a double-deck, dual-voltage electric multiple unit trainset that are operated by SNCF on the Réseau Express Régional (RER), a hybrid suburban commuter and rapid transit system and the Transilien, a suburban commuter rail system, both serving Paris and its Île-de-France suburbs.
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 41 years ago, in 1985.
- Top speed is 1.1× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- 2.8 MW is about 33 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 37 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 98.8 m long: about 22 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 564: 11 full city buses (~50 seats each).
- Still in service after 41 years.
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1985
- in service from
- 1985
- status
- in service
- number built
- 58
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇫🇷 France
- builders
- Alstom Crespin
- operators
- Société nationale des chemins de fer français, Réseau express régional, Transilien
- top speed
- 140 km/h
- power
- 2.8 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- electric system
- Overhead line:, 3, 3
- formation
- 4 cars per trainset
- length
- 98.8 m
- weight
- 221 t
- capacity
- 564 passengers
- Dutch name
- SNCF Z 8800
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q2776818, Wikipedia: SNCF Class Z 8800 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.