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#5752· Jazz (trein)

Jazz (Italian EMU)

🇮🇹 Italy ·built by Fiat Ferroviaria· from 2014· Italian electric multiple unit

FS Class ETR.425, photo 1 of 3
1/3· FS Class ETR.425 Rob Dammers· CC BY 2.0

what is it?

ETR 324, ETR 425 and ETR 526 "Jazz" are Italian electric multiple units (EMU) used mainly for commuter regional trains.

who runs it

base stats

  • speed 160 km/htop speed
  • built 100made 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 12 years ago, in 2014.
  • 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.
  • 67.6 m long: about 15 cars parked nose to tail.

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

spec sheet

built
2014
in service from
2014
status
in service
number built
100
kind
Electric
traction
electric
origin
🇮🇹 Italy
builders
Fiat Ferroviaria, Alstom
operators
Trenitalia, Ferrovienord, Trenord
top speed
160 km/h
power
—
gauge
1,435 mm standard gauge
electric system
3000 V DC Overhead
length
67.6 m
nicknames
Jazz
Dutch name
Jazz (trein)

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

Sources: Wikidata Q25410366, Wikipedia: Jazz (Italian EMU) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.

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