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Sprinter Lighttrain

🇳🇱 Netherlands ·built by ALSTOM Transportation Germany· from 2009· Electric Multiple Unit train type

🚆 multiple unit electric ✓ in service
9 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
  1. 1. SprinterLightTrain2402b: Niels Karsdorp, Dh3201· CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. 2. NS2463 -- 't Harde 20180908: Jan Derk Remmers· CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. 3. Amsterdam CS Sprinter Lighttrain 2021 1: Smiley.toerist· CC BY-SA 4.0
  4. 4. Amsterdam CS Sprinter Lighttrain 2021 2: Smiley.toerist· CC BY-SA 4.0
  5. 5. Nederlands Spoorwegmuseum - NS Sprinter Lighttrain (2019): Kevin.B· CC BY-SA 4.0
  6. 6. Nederlands Spoorwegmuseum train station - NS Sprinter Lighttrain (2019): Kevin.B· CC BY-SA 4.0
  7. 7. New Sprinter lighttrain: PPP· CC BY-SA 3.0
  8. 8. NSR - Sprinter Lighttrain (SLT) - Wieldrechtse Zeedijk - Dordrecht (22087244596): Frans Berkelaar· CC BY-SA 2.0
  9. 9. Rotterdam central, sprinter Lighttrain (2019): Kevin.B· CC BY-SA 4.0
Read about it on Wikipedia ↗
Sprinter Lighttrain, photo 1 of 9
1/9 Niels Karsdorp, Dh3201· CC BY-SA 3.0

what is it?

The Sprinter Lighttrain or SLT is an Electric Multiple Unit (EMU) train type operated by the Nederlandse Spoorwegen in the Netherlands. They were built from 2007 to 2012 by Bombardier (2400) and Siemens (2600). It is the successor of the Sprinter SGM train type.

who runs it

Nederlandse Spoorwegen

base stats

  • speed 160 km/htop speed
  • power 1.7 MWpower output
  • weight 129 tin working order
  • seats 216passengers
  • built 69made 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 17 years ago, in 2009.
  • 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.
  • 1.7 MW is about 20 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
  • Weighs about as much as 22 African elephants (~6 t each).
  • 69.4 m long: about 15 cars parked nose to tail.
  • Seats 216: 4 full city buses (~50 seats each).

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
69
kind
multiple unit
traction
electric
origin
🇳🇱 Netherlands
builders
ALSTOM Transportation Germany, Siemens, Siemens Mobility
operators
Nederlandse Spoorwegen
top speed
160 km/h
power
1.7 MW
gauge
1,435 mm standard gauge
electric system
1.5 kV DC Catenary
formation
4: mABk + mB + B + mABk (2400) , mABk + mB + AB + B + mB + mABk (2600)
length
69.4 m
weight
129 t
capacity
216 passengers

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

Sources: Wikidata Q694047, Wikipedia: Sprinter Lighttrain (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.

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