#5613· VR Sm6
VR Class Sm6
🇫🇮 Finland ·built by Alstom· from 2010· class of electric multiple units operated by the VR Group
10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. 2025-11-03 VR Sm6 Pendolino Plus Helsinki 01: Taavi Väänänen· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. 2025-11-03 VR Sm6 matkustamo: Taavi Väänänen· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. Sm6 Allegro 1. luokka: Otto Karikoski· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 4. Sm6 Allegro ohjaamo: Otto Karikoski· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 5. 2025-11-03 VR Sm6 Pendolino Plus Helsinki 02: Taavi Väänänen· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 6. 2025-11-03 VR Sm6 Pendolino Plus Helsinki 03: Taavi Väänänen· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 7. VR class SM6 in Tampere: NiiPii09· CC BY 4.0
- 8. VR Sm6 7053 Haarajoki 2025-06-05: Otto Karikoski· CC BY 4.0
- 9. VR Sm6 Pendolino Plus Tampere 2026-07-01: Taavi Väänänen· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 10. VR Sm6 Turku 2025-11-03: Jplahti· CC BY 4.0
what is it?
The Sm6 is a class of high-speed electric multiple unit trainsets built by Alstom. A total of four trainsets were originally built for the now-defunct Allegro train service operated by Karelian Trains, a joint venture between RZD (Russian Railways) and VR (Finnish Railways). VR seized the trains from the joint venture in 2023 and began using them in domestic services in November 2025 under the brand name Pendolino Plus.
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 16 years ago, in 2010.
- Top speed is 1.7× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 11 minutes.
- 5.5 MW is about 65 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 71 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 185 m long: about 41 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 337: 7 full city buses (~50 seats each).
- Served for 15 years (2010–2025).
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 2010
- in service from
- 2010
- retired
- 2025
- status
- retired
- number built
- 4
- kind
- Electric multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇫🇮 Finland
- builders
- Alstom, Fiat Ferroviaria
- operators
- VR Group, Russian Railways
- top speed
- 220 km/h
- power
- 5.5 MW
- gauge
- 1,520 mm Russian broad gauge
- electric system
- 3 Volt, kV Direct current, DC Overhead line, catenary
- formation
- 7 cars
- length
- 185 m
- weight
- 426 t
- capacity
- 337 passengers
- Dutch name
- VR Sm6
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q18415023, Wikipedia: VR Class Sm6 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.