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what is it?
The Siemens Vectouro (previously Viaggio Comfort and Viaggio Next Level) are a family of passenger trains built by Siemens Mobility starting from 2023. The train sets run as fixed configurations of either day or night carriages at up to 230 kilometres per hour (140 mph) and are hauled by a separate locomotive.
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 18 years ago, in 2008.
- Top speed is 1.8× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 10 minutes.
- 26.5 m long: about 6 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
- 2008
- in service from
- 2008
- number built
- 156
- kind
- Locomotive-hauled trainset
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇦🇹 Austria
- builders
- Siemens Mobility, Siemens
- operators
- Austrian Federal Railways
- top speed
- 230 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- length
- 26.5 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q123035621, Wikipedia: Siemens Vectouro (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.