#5396
Bombardier MultiLevel Coach
🇨🇦 Canada ·built by ALSTOM Transportation Germany· from 2006· bilevel rail car
3 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. NJ Transit Multilevel 7014 on Train 6651: Adam E. Moreira· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. Morristown Express: MTAEnthusiast10· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. Multilevel III Power Car 8300 At Millburn: Fan Railer· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Bombardier MultiLevel Coach is a bi-level passenger rail car for use on North American commuter rail lines. Originally built by Bombardier Transportation beginning in 2006, they are now built by Alstom since 2021, which markets the coaches as part of their Adessia series. The first units were delivered by Bombardier in 2006 for New Jersey Transit and Montreal's Exo.
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 20 years ago, in 2006.
- Top speed is 1.4× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 14 minutes.
- 2.3 MW is about 27 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 11 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 25.9 m long: about 6 cars parked nose to tail.
- Still in service after 20 years.
carriage / wagon: Unpowered passenger coaches or freight wagons, pulled by a locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 2006
- in service from
- 2006
- status
- in service
- number built
- 643
- kind
- carriage / wagon
- origin
- 🇨🇦 Canada
- builders
- ALSTOM Transportation Germany, Alstom
- operators
- New Jersey Transit Rail Operations, Montreal commuter trains, MARC, New Jersey Transit
- top speed
- 177 km/h
- power
- 2.3 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- length
- 25.9 m
- weight
- 63.1 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q891794, Wikipedia: Bombardier MultiLevel Coach (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.