#4487· SNCF Z 5600
SNCF Class Z 5600
🇫🇷 France ·built by Compagnie industrielle de matériel de transport· from 1982
10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Z5656 LDY: Romain Marin· CC BY-SA 1.0
- 2. Gare Bourron-Marlotte - Grez IMG 8614: Poudou99· CC BY 3.0
- 3. Z5600 Intérieur: Eole99· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 4. Z 5600.4 — gare de Chilly-Mazarin: Skililipappa· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. Epinay-sur-Orge - 2020-09-09 - IMG 2445: Poudou99· CC BY 4.0
- 6. Epinay-sur-Orge - 2020-09-09 - IMG 2446: Poudou99· CC BY 4.0
- 7. Epinay-sur-Orge - 2020-09-09 - IMG 2447: Poudou99· CC BY 4.0
- 8. Epinay-sur-Orge - 2020-09-09 - IMG 2449: Poudou99· CC BY 4.0
- 9. Gare d'Épinay-sur-Orge — Z 5600 Carmillon: Skililipappa· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 10. Gare de Gravigny-Balizy - 2021-09-22 - IMG 9346: Poudou99· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The SNCF Class Z 5600 is a double-deck electric multiple unit trainset that is operated by SNCF on line C of the Réseau Express Régional (RER), a hybrid suburban commuter and rapid transit system serving Paris and its Île-de-France suburbs and the TER Bourgogne-Franche-Comté regional rail system. The 52 trainsets were built by a consortium of CIMT, TCF, and TCO between 1982 and 1985. The Z 5600 trainsets proved successful and became the basis for the Z 2N series of trainsets, which were continuously improved over several generations.
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 44 years ago, in 1982.
- Top speed is 1.1× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- 2.8 MW is about 33 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 49 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 98.8 m long: about 22 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 856: 17 full city buses (~50 seats each).
- Still in service after 44 years.
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1982
- in service from
- 1982
- status
- in service
- number built
- 52
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇫🇷 France
- builders
- Compagnie industrielle de matériel de transport
- operators
- Société nationale des chemins de fer français, Transilien
- top speed
- 140 km/h
- power
- 2.8 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- formation
- 4 or 6 cars per trainset
- length
- 98.8 m
- weight
- 295 t
- capacity
- 856 passengers
- Dutch name
- SNCF Z 5600
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q2119244, Wikipedia: SNCF Class Z 5600 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.