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10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Fyra V250 4806: Arnold de Vries· CC BY 2.0
- 2. TI ETR 700 002 Desenzano 20240406: Moliva· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. V250 kop AnsaldoBreda Pistoia: Maurits90· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 4. Ansaldo Breda V250: Wiki05· Public domain
- 5. Fyra V250 (8493231786): Rob Dammers· CC BY 2.0
- 6. Fyra V250 4805 Rotterdam Centraal - Flickr - Rob Dammers: Rob Dammers· CC BY 2.0
- 7. Fyra V250 in Antwerpen I: Smiley.toerist· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 8. Fyra V250 in Antwerpen II: Smiley.toerist· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 9. Fyra V250 in Rotterdam: Smiley.toerist· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 10. Fyra V250 wordt afgevoerd naar Italië: Alfenaar· CC BY-SA 2.0
what is it?
The Trenitalia ETR 700, originally NS Hispeed V250, is a high-speed train designed by Pininfarina and built by AnsaldoBreda originally for NS International and NMBS/SNCB to operate on the Fyra service, a high-speed train between Amsterdam and Brussels with a branch to Breda on the newly built HSL-Zuid in the Netherlands and its extension HSL 4 in Belgium. V250s were delivered with a significant delay. Full commercial services with V250 started on 9 December 2012 but stopped only 39 days later on 17 January 2013, after the Belgian Railway Inspection Agency suspended the trains' operating license, because of safety and structural problems with the construction and maintenance of the V250s.
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 14 years ago, in 2012.
- Top speed is 1.9× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 10 minutes.
- 5.5 MW is about 65 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 71 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 201 m long: about 45 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 546: 11 full city buses (~50 seats each).
high-speed train: Built for 200–350 km/h on dedicated lines, like the TGV, ICE or Shinkansen.
spec sheet
- built
- 2012
- in service from
- 2012
- status
- in service
- number built
- 19
- kind
- high-speed train
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇮🇹 Italy
- builders
- Hitachi Rail Italy, AnsaldoBreda
- designer
- Pininfarina
- operators
- NS International, Trenitalia
- top speed
- 250 km/h
- power
- 5.5 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- electric system
- Overhead catenary:*, 3 kV DC
- formation
- 8-car sets, mAk+AD+mAB+B+B+mB+B+mBk
- length
- 201 m
- weight
- 423 t
- capacity
- 546 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q568845, Wikipedia: AnsaldoBreda V250 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.