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FS Class E.464
🇮🇹 Italy ·built by ALSTOM Transportation Germany· from 1999· Italian railways electric locomotive class
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Electric locomotive at Milano C: Peter Van den Bossche· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 2. E.464.603 Asti: Incola· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The E.464 is a class of Italian railways electric locomotives. They were introduced in the course of the 1990s for hauling light trains, especially for commuter service. They were acquired by FS Trenitalia to replace the old E.424 and E.646, dating from the 1940s and 1950s.
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 27 years ago, in 1999.
- 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.
- 3.5 MW is about 41 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 12 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 15.8 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Still in service after 27 years.
electric locomotive: Draws power from overhead wires or a third rail and pulls separate carriages.
spec sheet
- built
- 1999–2015
- in service from
- 1999
- status
- in service
- number built
- 728
- kind
- Electric
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇮🇹 Italy
- builders
- ALSTOM Transportation Germany
- operators
- Trenitalia, Treni Regionali Ticino Lombardia, Trenord, Trasporto Ferroviario Toscano, Trenitalia Tper, FS Treni Turistici Italiani, Ferrovie Emilia Romagna, TPER
- top speed
- 160 km/h
- power
- 3.5 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- electric system
- 3,000 V DC
- wheel arrangement
- Bo′Bo′
- length
- 15.8 m
- weight
- 72 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q898467, Wikipedia: FS Class E.464 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.