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Y1

🇸🇪 Sweden ·built by Fiat Ferroviaria· diesel railcar

Y1, photo 1 of 3
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what is it?

The Y1 is a diesel-hydraulic standard gauge railcar (single self-propelling carriage). It is in use in Croatia, Serbia, Kosovo, Sweden and Uruguay. The production of the railcars was begun in 1980 by Kalmar Verkstad and Fiat Ferroviaria for Sweden.

who runs it

base stats

  • speed 130 km/htop speed
  • power 294 kWpower output
  • weight 47 tin working order
  • 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

  • Weighs about as much as 8 African elephants (~6 t each).
  • 24.4 m long: about 5 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
—
number built
100
kind
multiple unit
traction
diesel
origin
🇸🇪 Sweden
builders
Fiat Ferroviaria, Kalmar Verkstad
operators
Vy, Trainkos, Serbian Railways, Västtrafik, Croatian Railways, State Railways Administration of Uruguay, Jönköpings länstrafik, Kalmar länstrafik, Inlandsbanan AB
top speed
130 km/h
power
294 kW
gauge
1,435 mm standard gauge
wheel arrangement
(1A)(A1)
length
24.4 m
weight
47 t

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

Sources: Wikidata Q1083854, Wikipedia: Y1 (railcar) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.

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