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Pesa Link

🇨🇿 Czech Republic ·built by Pesa· from 2012· family of diesel multiple units manufactured by PESA

🚆 multiple unit diesel ✓ in service
Pesa Link, photo 1 of 10
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what is it?

The Pesa Link is a family of Polish diesel multiple units developed by the Polish rolling-stock manufacturer Pesa SA, built in Bydgoszcz, Poland. The single, double and triple car units were built, but the manufacturer also plans a quadruple car version. The Pesa Link trains currently operate in the Czech Republic (České dráhy), Poland (Lower Silesian Railways, Greater Poland Railways, and Polregio), Germany (Niederbarnimer Eisenbahn and Deutsche Bahn) and Ghana (Ghana Railway Company Limited).

who runs it

base stats

  • speed 160 km/htop speed
  • power 565 kWpower output
  • weight 89 tin working order
  • seats 150passengers
  • built 136made 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 14 years ago, in 2012.
  • 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.
  • 565 kW is about 7 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
  • Weighs about as much as 15 African elephants (~6 t each).
  • 43.7 m long: about 10 cars parked nose to tail.
  • Seats 150: 3 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
2012
in service from
2012
status
in service
number built
136
kind
Diesel multiple unit
traction
diesel
origin
🇨🇿 Czech Republic
builders
Pesa
designer
Bartosz Piotrowski, Mariusz Gorczyński
operators
České dráhy, Koleje Wielkopolskie, Koleje Dolnośląskie, Polregio, Niederbarnimer Eisenbahn, DB Regio, Ghana Railway Corporation
top speed
160 km/h
power
565 kW
gauge
1,435 mm standard gauge
wheel arrangement
B'2'
formation
2 cars, 3 cars, 4 cars
length
43.7 m
weight
89 t
capacity
150 passengers

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

Sources: Wikidata Q822508, Wikipedia: Pesa Link (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.

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