#5565· SNCF Z 50000
SNCF Class Z 50000
🇨🇦 Canada ·built by ALSTOM Transportation Germany· from 2009· electric multiple unit
10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Z50000 12dec2009 IMG 6183: Poudou99· CC BY 3.0
- 2. Z50000 IDFM et SNCF Carmillon: Momo Ratp· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. Z50000 12dec2009 IMG 6002: Poudou99· CC BY 3.0
- 4. Z50000 12dec2009 IMG 6066: Poudou99· CC BY 3.0
- 5. Z50000 207L en gare de Cergy Saint Christophe: Z50000 262L· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 6. Z50000 sncf ligneH: Simflotrain· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 7. Z 50000 - Intérieur d'un élément en courbe: Clicsouris· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 8. Z 50000 — SIVE.2: Skililipappa· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 9. 50016 Poste de conduite aux Joncherolles: Claude villetaneuse· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 10. Technicentre Paris Nord - Joncherolles - Poste de conduite Z 50000 01: Clicsouris· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The SNCF Class Z 50000, also known as the 'Francilian', or 'NAT' (for French: Nouvelle Automotrice Transilien, English: New Transilien Railcar, the project name) is a type of dual-voltage electric multiple unit trainset designed in the 2000s. It is used on the commuter rail system serving Paris and its Île-de-France suburbs on the Transilien network running out of Gare du Nord, Gare de l'Est and Gare Saint-Lazare. A total of 360 trainsets have been built by Canadian conglomerate Bombardier at its Crespin, France (near Valenciennes) factory between 2006 and 2022.
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 17 years ago, in 2009.
- Top speed is 1.1× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- 2.6 MW is about 31 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 35 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 94.3 m long: about 21 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
- 2009
- in service from
- 2009
- status
- in service
- number built
- 360
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇨🇦 Canada
- builders
- ALSTOM Transportation Germany
- operators
- Société nationale des chemins de fer français
- top speed
- 140 km/h
- power
- 2.6 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- electric system
- Overhead line:, 3, 3
- wheel arrangement
- Bo′+2′+Bo′+Bo′+2′+Bo′+2′+Bo′ (7 cars)
- formation
- 16 cars per trainset, 194 trainsets with 16 cars, 166 trainsets with 16 cars, (all as of 2 December 2022)
- length
- 94.3 m
- weight
- 210 t
- Dutch name
- SNCF Z 50000
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q528431, Wikipedia: SNCF Class Z 50000 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.