#5021· CIS ETR.470
FS Class ETR 470
🇬🇷 Greece ·built by Fiat Ferroviaria· from 1996· 1990s electric multiple unit
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10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. CIS VE SL: Diesirae· CC BY 3.0
- 2. The ETR 470 in the Hellenic Train livery (cropped): NikolasSkevis1· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. CIS ETR 470 002: Alfenaar from Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 4. CIS ETR 470 005 Bellinzona 130609 CIS19: NAC· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. CIS ETR 470 at Stuttgart in 1999: Smiley.toerist· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 6. Cisalpino (ETR 470) at Stuttgart Hbf.: Matthew Black· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 7. Cisalpino ETR470-08: Jan Oosterhuis· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 8. Cisalpino etr470xxx-00: K. Jähne· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 9. ETR 470 Cisalpino: Sandro Baldi· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 10. ETR 470 MIChiasso: Kabelleger / David Gubler ( https://www.bahnbilder.ch )· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
ETR 470 (ElettroTreno 470) is a high-speed tilting electric multiple unit, which is now only operated by the Greek company, Hellenic Train. Introduced in September 1996, nine units were built for the Italo-Swiss firm Cisalpino. They were made by Fiat Ferroviaria (now Alstom), and could tilt up to 8°.
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 30 years ago, in 1996.
- 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.
- 6.6 MW is about 78 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 133 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 237 m long: about 53 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 473: 9 full city buses (~50 seats each).
- Served for 19 years (1996–2015).
high-speed train: Built for 200–350 km/h on dedicated lines, like the TGV, ICE or Shinkansen.
spec sheet
- built
- 1996
- in service from
- 1996
- retired
- 2015
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 9
- kind
- Electric multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇬🇷 Greece
- builders
- Fiat Ferroviaria, Alstom
- designer
- Giorgetto Giugiaro
- operators
- Hellenic Train
- top speed
- 250 km/h
- power
- 6.6 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- electric system
- 3 kV DC, , 15 kV 16, 2, 3 Hz AC & 25 kV AC railway electrification Overhead catenary
- formation
- 3 first class coaches, 1 restaurant car, 5 second class coaches.
- length
- 237 m
- weight
- 798 t
- capacity
- 473 passengers
- Dutch name
- CIS ETR.470
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q668075, Wikipedia: FS Class ETR 470 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.