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ER9 electric trainset
🇺🇦 Ukraine ·built by Riga Railway Carriage Building Factory· from 1962· electric multiple unit by Riga railcar factory
7 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Id er9-30: Изотов Д.М.· CC BY 3.0
- 2. ER9Pk-139, Ryazhsk station: motowoz· CC0
- 3. EVP-001: SHOMAS4416· CC BY 4.0
- 4. RP-005: Сергей Болашенко· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 5. SV-2: Сергей Болашенко· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 6. Электропоезд ЭР9ПК-311 на ст. Дивногорск: Никич· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 7. ЭР-9ПМ ф11: Andshel· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
For servicing suburban commuter lines, electrified on 25 kV, AC, the Railcar Manufacturing Plant of Riga produced ER9, then ER9P and other modifications of electric trainsets in the 1962-2002 period. The mass production of these trains had begun in 1964.
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 64 years ago, in 1962.
- 19.6 m long: about 4 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
- 1962
- in service from
- 1962
- number built
- —
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇺🇦 Ukraine
- builders
- Riga Railway Carriage Building Factory, Tverskoy Vagonostroitelniy Zavod
- operators
- Ukrainian Railways
- top speed
- 130 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,520 mm Russian broad gauge
- electric system
- Catenary
- length
- 19.6 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1108014, Wikipedia: ER9 electric trainset (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.