🚃 carriage / wagon ✓ in service
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- 1. B7: Skistar· Public domain
what is it?
B7 is a Swedish second-class passenger car of the 1980s-car series.
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.
- 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
- 171
- kind
- carriage / wagon
- origin
- 🇸🇪 Sweden
- builders
- Kalmar Verkstad
- operators
- SJ AB, TÅGAB, Statens Järnvägar
- top speed
- 160 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- capacity
- 2 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q10423883, Wikipedia: SJ B7 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.