#4802· Sneltrammaterieel S1/S2
S1/S2 (Amsterdam Metro)
🇳🇱 Netherlands ·built by La Brugeoise et Nivelles· from 1990· former rolling stock of the Amsterdam Metro
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Sneltrammaterieel Amsterdam Amstel: Mauritsvink· Public domain
- 2. J38 122 Bf Amsterdam Bijlmer ArenA, ET 52: Falk2· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
S1 and S2 units, collectively called S1/S2, were electric multiple unit trains used on the Amsterdam Metro in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Built by La Brugeoise et Nivelles (BN), 13 of these units were ordered by the GVB in 1988 (S1), as well as an additional 12 later in 1991 (S2), for a new line from Amsterdam Centraal station to the suburb of Amstelveen. This line, named the Amstelveen Line and later numbered as 51, was initially expected to be a full metro line, but it was later changed to a tram-metro hybrid named sneltram (express tram) due to protests against the metro in the preceding decades.
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 36 years ago, in 1990.
- Weighs about as much as 8 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 30.6 m long: about 7 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 190: 4 full city buses (~50 seats each).
- Served for 34 years (1990–2024).
tram / light rail: Street-running or light-rail vehicles that share or skirt the road.
spec sheet
- built
- 1990
- in service from
- 1990
- retired
- 2024
- status
- retired
- number built
- 25
- kind
- Express tram , Metro
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇳🇱 Netherlands
- builders
- La Brugeoise et Nivelles
- operators
- GVB
- top speed
- 70 km/h
- power
- —
- length
- 30.6 m
- weight
- 46.3 t
- capacity
- 190 passengers
- Dutch name
- Sneltrammaterieel S1/S2
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q2469544, Wikipedia: S1/S2 (Amsterdam Metro) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.