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Mark 4 (Iarnród Éireann)
🇮🇪 Ireland ·built by Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles· from 2006· railway carriages
🚃 carriage / wagon ✓ in service
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10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. IE DVT 1: Dawgz at English Wikipedia· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. Cork IÉ-Mk4-4002: Markus Giger· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. Mallow IÉ-10217-Mark4: Markus Giger· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. Mark 4 DVT at Kent Station (Cork)-106620: William Murphy· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 5. Mark 4 DVT at Kent Station (Cork)-106623 (cropped): William Murphy· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 6. Mark 4 DVT at Kent Station (Cork)-106623: William Murphy· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 7. 4006 Pulling Away From Dublin Heuston For Cork Kent: Trainspotting In Ireland Channel· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 8. Heuston railway station: Cian Ginty at en.wikipedia· Attribution
- 9. Intercity Heuston: Randwick· Public domain
- 10. Irish Rail Mark 4 DVT: Cityswift· CC BY 2.0
what is it?
The CAF Mark 4 (or MK4 or MKIV) are railway carriages operated by Iarnród Éireann in Ireland on the InterCity service from Dublin to Cork. These carriages have no connection to the British Rail Mark 4.
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 20 years ago, in 2006.
- Top speed is 1.5× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 12 minutes.
- Weighs about as much as 11 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 189 m long: about 42 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 422: 8 full city buses (~50 seats each).
- Still in service after 20 years.
carriage / wagon: Unpowered passenger coaches or freight wagons, pulled by a locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 2006
- in service from
- 2006
- status
- in service
- number built
- 7
- kind
- carriage / wagon
- origin
- 🇮🇪 Ireland
- builders
- Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles
- operators
- InterCity, Iarnród Éireann—Irish Rail
- top speed
- 200 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,600 mm Irish broad gauge
- formation
- 7-8-car trainsets
- length
- 189 m
- weight
- 63 t
- capacity
- 422 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q6766426, Wikipedia: Mark 4 (Iarnród Éireann) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.