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VAL 208
🇫🇷 France ·built by Siemens Mobility· from 2001· medium capacity rapid transit rolling stock
🚇 metro ✓ in service
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10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. VAL 208 n°141 Métro 2 TRANSPOLE Porte d'Arras: Florian Fèvre· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. VAL208 Viaduc Rocade Ligne A du métro de Toulouse: Maxime Lafage· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3. Uijeongbu ULine VAL208: Minseong Kim· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. CDG - CDGVAL - LISA - 13: Greenski· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 5. CDG Val 0363: ArséniureDeGallium· CC BY-SA 2.5
- 6. CDGVal - 1: Benoît Prieur· CC0
- 7. CDGVal - 3: Benoît Prieur· CC0
- 8. Cdgval 2rames val208 terminalT3: user:Eole99· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 9. Ligne 1 du métro de Lille Métropole - Garage du CHR B-Calmette (01): Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick· GFDL 1.2
- 10. Ligne 1 du métro de Lille Métropole - Garage du CHR B-Calmette (02): Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick· GFDL 1.2
what is it?
The VAL 208 is one of the VAL series, an automated guideway transit system developed by Matra and Siemens. The vehicles are manufactured at Siemens SGP (Simmering-Graz-Pauker) in Vienna, Austria. It has been adopted by multiple railway operators since 2000.
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 25 years ago, in 2001.
- 520 kW is about 6 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- 13.1 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- Still in service after 25 years.
metro: Urban rapid transit: frequent, high-capacity trains, often underground.
spec sheet
- built
- 2001
- in service from
- 2001
- status
- in service
- number built
- —
- kind
- metro
- origin
- 🇫🇷 France
- builders
- Siemens Mobility, Simmering-Graz-Pauker
- top speed
- 80 km/h
- power
- 520 kW
- gauge
- 1,620 mm broad gauge
- formation
- 2 cars per trainset
- length
- 13.1 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q774461, Wikipedia: VAL 208 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.