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V/Line VLocity
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by ALSTOM Transportation Germany· from 2005· Australian train
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10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Three-car-VLocity-VL38: Marcus Wong Wongm· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. VLocity set 2128 at Flinders Street station (up Traralgon service)(26 December 2025): PEPSI697· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. VLocity passenger carriage viewed from front — April 2022: Alison Newman· CC0
- 4. VLocity passenger carriage viewed from rear — April 2022: Alison Newman· CC0
- 5. V Line VLocity train running a service to Southern Cross Station running express through Hawksburn Station, South Yarra (53186001627): Philip Mallis from Melbourne· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 6. Vlocity VL61 at North Shore: Max Thum· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 7. Vlocity train at little river victoria: Wongm· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 8. A VLocity Train Crossing the RRL and a Comeng Departing North Melbourne: Esc.Trains· CC BY 4.0
- 9. Alstom Comeng 676M and VLocity 1114 at Sunbury station (18 November 2025): PEPSI697· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 10. Destination board reading 'Melton' on side of VLIne Vlocity train at Sunshine Railway Station, Sunshine: Philip Mallis· CC BY-SA 2.0
what is it?
The V/Line VLocity, sometimes called the VLocity 160, is a diesel multiple unit (DMU) train built in Dandenong by Bombardier Transportation and, later, by Alstom, for V/Line, the regional rail operator in the Australian state of Victoria. Continuously in production since 2003, the VLocity is the highest-speed train in the V/Line fleet, with a top speed of 160 km/h (100 mph). As of August 2026, all 141 Vlocity sets have entered service.
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.
- Weighs about as much as 29 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 75.8 m long: about 17 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 224: 4 full city buses (~50 seats each).
- Still in service after 21 years.
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
- status
- in service
- number built
- 424
- kind
- DMU
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- ALSTOM Transportation Germany, Alstom
- operators
- V/Line
- top speed
- 160 km/h
- power
- —
- formation
- 3 semi-permanently coupled cars
- length
- 75.8 m
- weight
- 171 t
- capacity
- 224 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7907167, Wikipedia: V/Line VLocity (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.