#5005· VR Sm 3
VR Class Sm3
🇫🇮 Finland ·built by Fiat Ferroviaria· from 1995· Finnish high-speed train
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10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Green Finnish Pendolino: Otto Karikoski· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. Sm3 at Jyväskylä service platform: Yaamboo· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3. Sm3 bogey: SignalPAD· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 4. 05.07.16 Turku Sm3 7113 (27671819774): Phil Richards from London, UK· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 5. 07.07.16 Pieksämäki Sr2 3212, Sm3 7116 and Dm12 4402+4415 (28043210940): Phil Richards from London, UK· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 6. A passenger train (type Sm3 Pendolino) near the Helsinki railway station in Finland: Pöllö· CC BY 3.0
- 7. I11 945 Bf Böle, Sm3: Falk2· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 8. Sm3 and Sm4 EMUs at Lahti: Yaamboo· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 9. Sm3 Pendolino at Lahti: Yaamboo· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 10. Sm3 Pendolino Pasilassa tammikuussa 2024: Taavi Väänänen· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Sm3 Pendolino (originally branded as Pendolino S220, and usually referred to simply as the Pendolino) is a class of high-speed body-tilting trains operated by VR Group. It is a member of the Pendolino train family; its design is based on the ETR 460. The first two trainsets were assembled in Finland by Rautaruukki-Transtech in the mid-1990s.
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 31 years ago, in 1995.
- Top speed is 1.7× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 11 minutes.
- 4 MW is about 47 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 55 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 159 m long: about 35 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 309: 6 full city buses (~50 seats each).
- Served for 11 years (1995–2006).
high-speed train: Built for 200–350 km/h on dedicated lines, like the TGV, ICE or Shinkansen.
spec sheet
- built
- 1995
- in service from
- 1995
- retired
- 2006
- status
- retired
- number built
- 18
- kind
- high-speed train
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇫🇮 Finland
- builders
- Fiat Ferroviaria, Rautaruukki, Škoda Transtech, Alstom
- operators
- VR Group
- top speed
- 220 km/h
- power
- 4 MW
- gauge
- 1,524 mm Russian broad gauge
- length
- 159 m
- weight
- 328 t
- capacity
- 309 passengers
- Dutch name
- VR Sm 3
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q935909, Wikipedia: VR Class Sm3 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.