#5381· SNCF B 81500
SNCF Class B 81500
🇫🇷 France ·built by ALSTOM Transportation Germany· from 2005· French hybrid multiple unit
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10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. La Redonne-Ensues gare-b: Didier Duforest· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. B 81500 quitte la gare d'Argenton-sur-Creuse: Floppy36· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3. SNCF B 81500 Embrun - Montdauphin-Guillestre: Kabelleger / David Gubler· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. SNCF B 81500 Niolon II: Kabelleger / David Gubler· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. AGC 81594 au Verdon-sur-Mer 04-19: Snoopy 31· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 6. AGC Aquitaine en gare de Sarlat le 27 septembre 2012: Levoyageur33· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 7. B81601 à Blanquefort par Cramos: Cramos· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 8. B81837 (25962298776): patrick janicek from Courbevoie, France· CC BY 2.0
- 9. Gare de Lyon-Perrache - Train B 81576 en gare habillé Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes 2 (janv 2019): Sebleouf· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 10. Lyon Perrache 2024 5: Smiley.toerist· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The B 81500 (often called BGC) is a class of bi-mode multiple units built by Bombardier for SNCF and used on the TER network in France. They are primarily used on suburban and regional services. It has been in operation since 2005 on the TER Aquitaine, TER Bourgogne, TER Centre, TER Champagne-Ardenne, TER Languedoc-Roussillon, TER Limousin, TER Midi-Pyrénées, TER PACA, TER Pays de la Loire, and TER Rhône-Alpes lines.
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 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.
- 1.9 MW is about 22 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- 72.8 m long: about 16 cars parked nose to tail.
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 2005
- in service from
- 2005
- number built
- —
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- bi-mode
- origin
- 🇫🇷 France
- builders
- ALSTOM Transportation Germany, Bombardier
- operators
- Société nationale des chemins de fer français
- top speed
- 160 km/h
- power
- 1.9 MW
- length
- 72.8 m
- Dutch name
- SNCF B 81500
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q847148, Wikipedia: SNCF Class B 81500 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.