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Protos

🇳🇱 Netherlands ·built by Fahrzeugtechnik Dessau· from 2007· electric multiple unit

🚆 multiple unit electric ✓ in service
10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
  1. 1. Connexxion 5033: User:Willem_90· Public domain
  2. 2. PROTOS (train): Erik Baas· CC BY-SA 3.0
  3. 3. Amersfoort Hoevelaken Protos 5031 Valleilijn uit Ede-Wageningen (14651617528): Rob Dammers· CC BY 2.0
  4. 4. Barneveld-Noord RRReis Protos 5033 (55181174981): Rob Dammers· CC BY 4.0
  5. 5. Connexxion Protos - Terschuur: Jan Derk Remmers· CC BY-SA 4.0
  6. 6. Connexxion Protos 5031 "Henk Lambooij" (14312959022): Roel Hemkes from Amersfoort, Netherlands· CC BY 2.0
  7. 7. Connexxion Protos 5031 steekt de Eem over (11985625894): Roel Hemkes· CC BY 2.0
  8. 8. Ede-Wageningen Protos 31358 (55394201697): Rob Dammers· CC BY 4.0
  9. 9. Ede-Wageningen station PROTOS: Smiley.toerist· CC BY-SA 3.0
  10. 10. Harselaar Protos 5032 Valleilijn 31344 Amersfoort - Flickr - Rob Dammers: Rob Dammers· CC BY 2.0
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Protos, photo 1 of 10
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what is it?

The Protos is an electric multiple unit built by the German company Fahrzeugtechnik Dessau.

who runs it

Keolis NederlandConnexxionRRReis

base stats

  • speed 160 km/htop speed
  • weight 108 tin working order
  • seats 12passengers
  • built 6made in total

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 19 years ago, in 2007.
  • Top speed is 1.2× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
  • At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 15 minutes.
  • Weighs about as much as 18 African elephants (~6 t each).

multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.

spec sheet

built
2007
in service from
2007
status
in service
number built
6
kind
multiple unit
traction
electric
origin
🇳🇱 Netherlands
builders
Fahrzeugtechnik Dessau
operators
Keolis Nederland, Connexxion, RRReis
top speed
160 km/h
power
—
gauge
1,435 mm standard gauge
electric system
1.5 kV Catenary
formation
2 cars per unit
weight
108 t
capacity
12 passengers

From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.

Sources: Wikidata Q1389741, Wikipedia: Protos (train) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.

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