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SNCF Oxygène
🇫🇷 France ·built by Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles· French train under construction
4 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Présentation Oxygène - Vue raprochée: Thalia Gylonno· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 2. CAF Oxygéne Plouaret: Allain Lloyd· CC BY 4.0
- 3. Présentation Oxygène - Vue de Face 2: Thalia Gylonno· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 4. Rame Oxygene Plouaret juillet 2025: Spendeau· CC0
what is it?
The Oxygène Z 26700, previously known as the Confort200 and AMLD (Automotrice de Moyenne et Longue Distance) is a high speed, electric multiple unit, passenger train under construction by CAF, for SNCF for use on their Intercités services. The trains will serve the Paris-Clermont Ferrand, Paris-Orléans-Limoges-Toulouse (POLT) and Bordeaux-Marseilles lines. It is planned for entry into service in summer 2027.
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
- 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.
- 4 MW is about 47 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 61 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 188 m long: about 42 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 420: 8 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
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- number built
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- kind
- Electric multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇫🇷 France
- builders
- Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles
- operators
- Société nationale des chemins de fer français
- top speed
- 200 km/h
- power
- 4 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- electric system
- Overhead line:, 3, 3
- formation
- 10 cars
- length
- 188 m
- weight
- 365 t
- capacity
- 420 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q86724506, Wikipedia: SNCF Oxygène (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.