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CPTM Series 7000
🇧🇷 Brazil ·built by Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles· from 2010· class of Brazilian electric multiple units
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. CAF Q1.2010 015: Gabriel Da Sobreira· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The CPTM Series 7000 is a class of electric multiple units part of the São Paulo Metropolitan Trains rolling stock. It was built by CAF and began operating in 2010.
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.
- 2.1 MW is about 24 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 30 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 21.9 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 1,004: 20 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
- 2010
- in service from
- 2010
- status
- in service
- number built
- 320
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇧🇷 Brazil
- builders
- Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles
- operators
- Companhia Paulista de Trens Metropolitanos, ViaMobilidade Linhas 5 e 17, ViaMobilidade Linhas 8 e 9
- top speed
- 100 km/h
- power
- 2.1 MW
- gauge
- 1,600 mm Irish broad gauge
- electric system
- overhead line
- wheel arrangement
- Bo′Bo′+2′2′+2′2′+Bo′Bo′
- formation
- 4-car sets (MC–R1–R2–MC)
- length
- 21.9 m
- weight
- 179 t
- capacity
- 1,004 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q10376792, Wikipedia: CPTM Series 7000 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.