Bombardier BiLevel Coach

what is it?

The BiLevel Coach is a bilevel passenger railcar designed for commuter rail service in North America and currently manufactured by Alstom. It was originally developed for GO Transit in the Greater Toronto Area in the mid-1970s and has since been used by commuter rail agencies in Canada and the United States. They have been previously manufactured by Hawker Siddeley, Urban Transportation Development Corporation (UTDC), SNC-Lavalin and Bombardier.

who runs it

CaltrainAltamont Corridor ExpressGO TransitFrontRunner

base stats

• speed 160 km/htop speed
• weight 49.5 tin working order
• seats 162passengers
• built 1,510made 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 50 years ago, in 1976.
• 🏎️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.
• 🐘Weighs about as much as 8 African elephants (~6 t each).
• 📏25.9 m long: about 6 cars parked nose to tail.
• 🧍Seats 162: 3 full city buses (~50 seats each).

carriage / wagon: Unpowered passenger coaches or freight wagons, pulled by a locomotive.

spec sheet

built

1976

in service from

1976

number built

1,510

kind

carriage / wagon

origin

🇨🇦 Canada

builders

Hawker Siddeley Canada, Canadian Car and Foundry, Urban Transportation Development Corporation, ALSTOM Transportation Germany, Alstom

operators

Caltrain, Altamont Corridor Express, GO Transit, FrontRunner

top speed

160 km/h

power

—

gauge

1,435 mm standard gauge

formation

Single car

length

25.9 m

weight

49.5 t

capacity

162 passengers

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