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Pesa 730M

🇵🇱 Poland ·built by Pesa· from 2013· diesel multiple-unit model manufactured by PESA

Pesa 730M, photo 1 of 10
1/10 Neu-Zwei· CC BY-SA 4.0

what is it?

The Pesa 730M is a 3-unit diesel multiple unit predestined to be used on a wide track that is manufactured by Pesa in Poland, but actively used in Lithuania and Belarus. Lithuanian Railways utilises Pesa 730ML trains on Vilnius–Klaipėda services and Vilnius–Riga–Valga services.

who runs it

base stats

  • speed 156 km/htop speed
  • built 14made in total

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 13 years ago, in 2013.
  • Top speed is 1.2× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
  • 69.4 m long: about 15 cars parked nose to tail.

multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.

spec sheet

built
2013
in service from
2013
number built
14
kind
multiple unit
traction
diesel
origin
🇵🇱 Poland
builders
Pesa
operators
Lietuvos geležinkeliai, AB, Belarusian Railway
top speed
156 km/h
power
—
gauge
1,520 mm Russian broad gauge
length
69.4 m

From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.

Sources: Wikidata Q18406250, Wikipedia: Pesa 730M (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.

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