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HRCS2
🇺🇦 Ukraine ·built by Hyundai Rotem· from 2012· class of 10 Ukrainian electric multiple units
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10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. HRCS2-004 разъезд 328 км 07-2016: Алексей Краснов· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. Скоростной поезд "Хендай": Чуваев Николай· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3. HRCS2-004 и 002 на станции Киев Пассажирский: Апатинаити· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 4. Hyundai Rotem HRCS2: Vladimir Korolev· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 5. DPKr3-003 and HRCS2-003 in depot (3): Прес-служба Президента України· CC BY 4.0
- 6. HRCS2, Dnipro, Ukraine; 07.08.19: VKras· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 7. HRCS2-001 - 31.12.2017: Богдан Гречанський· CC BY 4.0
- 8. HRCS2-004, станция "Дарница": Alex long· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 9. HRCS2-006 (cropped): Maximiljan· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 10. HRCS2-006: Maximiljan· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The HRCS2 Hyundai Rotem is a dual-voltage electric multiple unit built by Hyundai Rotem for the Ukrainian Railways.
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 1.4× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 14 minutes.
- Weighs about as much as 69 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 21.7 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 1,162: 23 full city buses (~50 seats each).
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 2012
- in service from
- 2012
- status
- in service
- number built
- 100
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇺🇦 Ukraine
- builders
- Hyundai Rotem
- operators
- Ukrainian Railways, Ukrainian Railway Speed Company
- top speed
- 176 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,520 mm Russian broad gauge
- formation
- 9 cars per trainset
- length
- 21.7 m
- weight
- 414 t
- capacity
- 1,162 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q2156576, Wikipedia: HRCS2 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.