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CPTM Series 8000
🇧🇷 Brazil ·built by Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles· from 2012· class of Brazilian electric multiple units
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2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. At Estação Júlio Prestes 2018 120: Photograph by Mike Peel ( www.mikepeel.net ).· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. Entrega da Estação Quitaúna Osasco (35482446051): Governo do Estado de São Paulo· CC BY 2.0
what is it?
The CPTM Series 8000 is class of electric multiple units owned by Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (CAF) and rented to CPTM in a public-private partnership.
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 14 years ago, in 2012.
- 4.2 MW is about 49 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 2,264: 45 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
- 2012
- in service from
- 2012
- status
- in service
- number built
- 288
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇧🇷 Brazil
- builders
- Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles
- operators
- Companhia Paulista de Trens Metropolitanos
- top speed
- 90 km/h
- power
- 4.2 MW
- gauge
- 1,600 mm Irish broad gauge
- electric system
- overhead line
- formation
- 8-car sets (MC–R1–R2–M+M–R2–R1–MC)
- length
- 21.9 m
- weight
- 179 t
- capacity
- 2,264 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q10376793, Wikipedia: CPTM Series 8000 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.