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Tempo
🇨🇦 Canada ·built by Hawker Siddeley Canada· from 1968· class of 25 Canadian railway passenger cars
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1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. CN 3151 RS18m wih a train of Hawker Siddeley Tempo cars at Bayview Jct., on the outskirts of Hamilton, Ontario, eastbound off the Dundas Sub. onto the Oakville Sub. in October 1981 (34125077603): Marty Bernard from U.S.A.· Public domain
what is it?
The Tempos are a fleet of 25 lightweight streamlined railway coaches built by Hawker Siddeley Canada for the Canadian National Railway in 1968. The cars were the centrepiece of a new set of intercity passenger trains in Southwestern Ontario. The fleet passed to Via Rail in 1978 and later saw use with the Ski Train, QIT-Fer et Titane, and the Algoma Central Railway.
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 58 years ago, in 1968.
- Still in service after 58 years.
carriage / wagon: Unpowered passenger coaches or freight wagons, pulled by a locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1968
- in service from
- 1968
- status
- in service
- number built
- 25
- kind
- carriage / wagon
- origin
- 🇨🇦 Canada
- builders
- Hawker Siddeley Canada
- operators
- Canadian National Railway, Via Rail, Winter Park Express, QIT-Fer et Titane, Algoma Central Railway
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q19878209, Wikipedia: Tempo (railcar) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.