🚃 carriage / wagon ✓ in service
8 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Storliens station: Kildor· CC BY 3.0
- 2. 2010-02-28 466 Korridor i WL1 5021: G och J· CC BY 4.0
- 3. 2025-03-01 5936 SJ WL1 5014: G och J· CC BY 4.0
- 4. 2025-03-01 5938 SJ WL1 5014: G och J· CC BY 4.0
- 5. 2025-03-01 5939 SJ WL1 5014: G och J· CC BY 4.0
- 6. 2025-03-01 5940 SJ WL1 5014: G och J· CC BY 4.0
- 7. 2025-03-01 5941 SJ WL1 5014: G och J· CC BY 4.0
- 8. TV-inspelning av 1969 års adventskalender Herkules Jonssons storverk 11: Jonasson, A-P· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
WL1 is a Swedish sleeping car of the 1960s type carriage. The carriages were built Kalmar Verkstad (KVAB) between 1964 and 1965. The carriages feature 10 sleeping compartments and one shower in their current configuration.
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 62 years ago, in 1964.
- 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).
- 24.5 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
- Still in service after 62 years.
carriage / wagon: Unpowered passenger coaches or freight wagons, pulled by a locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1964
- in service from
- 1964
- status
- in service
- number built
- 25
- kind
- carriage / wagon
- origin
- 🇸🇪 Sweden
- builders
- Kalmar Verkstad
- operators
- SJ AB
- top speed
- 160 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- length
- 24.5 m
- weight
- 48 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q18335090, Wikipedia: SJ WL1 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.