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VR Class Dm11
🇫🇮 Finland ·built by Alstom· from 1997· class of Cuban diesel multiple unit originally used in Finland
what is it?
The Dm11 was a diesel multiple unit built by GEC-Alsthom in Spain for VR Group. A total of 16 units were ordered in 1995, with an option of 16 more, at a price of 80 million Finnish marks. The first units arrived in Finland in February 1997 and testing started in Central Finland a month later.
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 29 years ago, in 1997.
- 410 kW is about 5 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 8 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 23.6 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 145: 3 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
- 1997
- in service from
- 1997
- number built
- 6
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇫🇮 Finland
- builders
- Alstom
- operators
- VR Group
- top speed
- 120 km/h
- power
- 410 kW
- gauge
- 1,524 mm Russian broad gauge
- formation
- 1 car
- length
- 23.6 m
- weight
- 46 t
- capacity
- 145 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7907508, Wikipedia: VR Class Dm11 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.