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AB7 (railway carriage)
🇸🇪 Sweden ·built by Kalmar Verkstad· from 1979· class of Swedish rail passenger car
9 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Uppsala central wagon AB7: Andrzej Otrębski· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. 2011-06-23 0244 AB7 5249 i Göteborg: G och J· CC BY 4.0
- 3. 2011-06-23 0279 SJ AB7 5233 i Göteborg: G och J· CC BY 4.0
- 4. 2012-08-17 0472 SJ AB7 5237 i Gävle: G och J· CC BY 4.0
- 5. 2024-07-27 3258 SJ AB7 5240 i Stockholm: G och J· CC BY 4.0
- 6. 2024-07-27 3263 Glasdörrarna mot vestibulen i SJ AB7 5240: G och J· CC BY 4.0
- 7. 2024-07-27 3264 Ingen kaffebuffé men i alla fall gratis vatten i förstaklassavdelningen i AB7 5240: G och J· CC BY 4.0
- 8. 2024-07-29 3643 SJ AB7 5236 i Göteborg: G och J· CC BY 4.0
- 9. 2024-07-29 3667 SJ AB7 5237 i Göteborg: G och J· CC BY 4.0
what is it?
AB7 is a Swedish passenger car of 1980s style featuring both first and second class seating. It has its origins in the 2008 decision to refurbish carriages originally built in the 1980s. As a part of the modernization program in 2009-2010, SJ rebuilt all of their AB9 carriages to a more modern version, designated the AB7.
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 47 years ago, in 1979.
- 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).
- 26.4 m long: about 6 cars parked nose to tail.
- Still in service after 47 years.
carriage / wagon: Unpowered passenger coaches or freight wagons, pulled by a locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1979
- in service from
- 1979
- status
- in service
- number built
- 19
- kind
- Passenger car
- origin
- 🇸🇪 Sweden
- builders
- Kalmar Verkstad
- operators
- Statens Järnvägar
- top speed
- 160 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- length
- 26.4 m
- weight
- 47 t
- capacity
- 57 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q10397493, Wikipedia: AB7 (railway carriage) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.