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IÉ 22000 Class
🇮🇪 Ireland ·built by Hyundai Rotem· from 2007· class of 63 Irish diesel multiple units
6 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Drogheda 1: Milepost98· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. 22337 Dublin Connolly: The Nikon User· CC BY 2.0
- 3. DMU IE-22000 Limerick-Colbert: en.wikipedia.org User Dawgz· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 4. 22000 Class Thurles: Christopher2010xxx· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 5. Irish rail class 22000: Iam-from-Ukraine-7· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 6. IÉ 22000 Class no. 22339: WakefulNI· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Irish Rail 22000 Class InterCity Railcar (ICR) is a diesel multiple unit in service with Iarnród Éireann in Ireland. They are the first IÉ DMUs built specifically for InterCity routes, although they can also work on some commuter routes. They are designed to operate at a maximum speed of 100 mph (160 km/h).
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 19 years ago, in 2007.
- 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 11 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 70 m long: about 16 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 376: 8 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
- 2007
- in service from
- 2007
- status
- in service
- number built
- 234
- kind
- Diesel Multiple Unit
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇮🇪 Ireland
- builders
- Hyundai Rotem, Japan Transport Engineering Company
- operators
- InterCity, Commuter, Iarnród Éireann—Irish Rail
- top speed
- 161 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,600 mm Irish broad gauge
- formation
- 3, 4, 5 and 6 car trainsets
- length
- 70 m
- weight
- 63 t
- capacity
- 376 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5970590, Wikipedia: IÉ 22000 Class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.