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AEZ railcar
🇨🇱 Chile ·built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries· from 1973· type of train used in Chile
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. AEZ-44 del EFE Chile: Thyristorchopper· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The AEZ railcar is a self-propelled, electric, multiple-unit train used by the state railway of Chile, Empresa de los Ferrocarriles del Estado (EFE). The railcars were used to service the electrified sections of line between Santiago, Valparaiso, Chillán, and Concepción, as well as used occasionally to service Temuco and Osorno. Six units were built and were numbered AEZ-41 to AEZ-46.
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 53 years ago, in 1973.
- Top speed is 1.4× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 13 minutes.
- 103 m long: about 23 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 252: 5 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
- 1973
- in service from
- 1973
- number built
- 6
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇨🇱 Chile
- builders
- Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Hitachi
- operators
- Empresa de los Ferrocarriles del Estado
- top speed
- 180 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,676 mm Indian broad gauge
- length
- 103 m
- capacity
- 252 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q60748764, Wikipedia: AEZ railcar (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.