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TCDD HT65000
🇹🇷 Turkey ·built by Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles· from 2009· High-speed train type
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. YHT at Ankara: B'Tian Denizcan P. Dorsam· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. TCDD Taşımacılık HT65000 at Ankara Tren Gari: NicholasNCE· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
TCDD HT65000 is a series of twelve high-speed electric multiple units built by the Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (CAF) of Spain for the Turkish State Railways (TCDD), The EMUs are used on the Turkish high-speed railway network and can reach a maximum commercial speed of 250 km/h.
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 17 years ago, in 2009.
- Top speed is 1.9× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 10 minutes.
- 4.8 MW is about 56 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- 159 m long: about 35 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 419: 8 full city buses (~50 seats each).
high-speed train: Built for 200–350 km/h on dedicated lines, like the TGV, ICE or Shinkansen.
spec sheet
- built
- 2009
- in service from
- 2009
- number built
- 12
- kind
- high-speed train
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇹🇷 Turkey
- builders
- Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles
- operators
- TCDD Taşımacılık, Turkish State Railways
- top speed
- 250 km/h
- power
- 4.8 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- electric system
- 25 kV, 50 Hz AC Overhead line
- formation
- 6 cars; modular design allows the train to be reconstructed with two additional cars
- length
- 159 m
- capacity
- 419 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q373121, Wikipedia: TCDD HT65000 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.