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IÉ 90000 Class
🇮🇪 Ireland ·built by Alstom· from 2027· class of Irish battery electric multiple units
what is it?
The Iarnród Éireann 90000 Class is a type of electric multiple unit (EMU) which will be deployed on the DART network in Dublin, Ireland. In December 2021 Iarnród Éireann chose Alstom as supplier of up to 750 carriages, in five- or ten-carriage trains, and made an initial order of 19 five-carriage trains, 13 of which will be battery electric multiple units (BEMUs). A second order was placed in December 2022 for 18 five-car BEMUs.
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 -1 years ago, in 2027.
- Top speed is 1.1× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- 82 m long: about 18 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 504: 10 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
- 2027
- in service from
- 2027
- number built
- 57
- kind
- Electric multiple unit
- traction
- battery
- origin
- 🇮🇪 Ireland
- builders
- Alstom
- operators
- Iarnród Éireann—Irish Rail
- top speed
- 145 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,600 mm Irish broad gauge
- electric system
- (nominal) from overhead catenary
- length
- 82 m
- capacity
- 504 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q131104207, Wikipedia: IÉ 90000 Class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.