🚃 carriage / wagon ✓ in service
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what is it?
B1, formerly Bo1 is a Swedish second class passenger car built by Kalmar Verkstad. The carriage belongs to the 1960s-cars family and was primarily used by the Swedish state railways, SJ between 1960 and 2006. The type remains in service in Sweden with private operators, including TÅGAB and Snälltåget.
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 66 years ago, in 1960.
- 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).
- 10 m long: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
- Still in service after 66 years.
carriage / wagon: Unpowered passenger coaches or freight wagons, pulled by a locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1960
- in service from
- 1960
- status
- in service
- number built
- 100
- kind
- carriage / wagon
- origin
- 🇸🇪 Sweden
- builders
- Kalmar Verkstad
- operators
- TÅGAB, Transdev Group, Statens Järnvägar
- top speed
- 160 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- length
- 10 m
- weight
- 45 t
- capacity
- 62 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q16497753, Wikipedia: SJ B1 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.