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CFL Dosto

🇱🇺 Luxembourg ·built by ALSTOM Transportation Germany· from 2005

🚃 carriage / wagon ✓ in service
CFL Dosto, photo 1 of 6
1/6 Alf van Beem· CC0

what is it?

The CFL-Dosto is the name for three series of Double-deck coaches by Bombardier for Luxembourg CFL. In various lengths, they form a Push-pull train with 3000 and 4000-locomotives.

who runs it

base stats

  • speed 160 km/htop speed
  • weight 52 tin working order
  • built 87made in total

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 21 years ago, in 2005.
  • 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.
  • Weighs about as much as 9 African elephants (~6 t each).
  • 26.8 m long: about 6 cars parked nose to tail.
  • Still in service after 21 years.

carriage / wagon: Unpowered passenger coaches or freight wagons, pulled by a locomotive.

spec sheet

built
2005
in service from
2005
status
in service
number built
87
kind
carriage / wagon
origin
🇱🇺 Luxembourg
builders
ALSTOM Transportation Germany, Bombardier
operators
Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois
top speed
160 km/h
power
—
gauge
1,435 mm standard gauge
formation
Push-pull
length
26.8 m
weight
52 t

From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.

Sources: Wikidata Q16762885, Wikipedia: CFL Dosto (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.

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