2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. TCDD MT5700: Hic1985· CC BY 3.0
- 2. MT5719 at Hilal: Btian P. Dorsam· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
TCDD MT5700 is a series of 30 diesel railcars operated by the Turkish State Railways. They were produced by Fiat of Italy and are closely related to the slightly older MT5600 and Italian railcar ALn 668. This railcar has a three-speed hydrodynamic automatic transmission.
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 32 years ago, in 1994.
- Top speed is 1.1× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- 420 kW is about 5 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 10 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 24.2 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
- 1994
- in service from
- 1994
- number built
- 30
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇹🇷 Turkey
- builders
- Fiat
- operators
- Turkish State Railways
- top speed
- 140 km/h
- power
- 420 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- formation
- B'B' single car
- length
- 24.2 m
- weight
- 57.3 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q3630658, Wikipedia: TCDD MT5700 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.