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Siemens Vectrain
🇨🇿 Czech Republic ·built by Siemens Mobility· from 2021· locomotive hauled trains
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- 1. 20230323 České dráhy 193292: Alex Noble· CC0
what is it?
Siemens Vectrain is a family of locomotive-hauled push-pull trains built by Siemens Mobility. The Vectrain consists of a Vectron locomotive and Vectouro coaches or other coaches certified by Siemens. The last coach can be a control car, which has a cabin identical to Vectron locomotives.
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 5 years ago, in 2021.
- 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 m long: about 6 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 154: 3 full city buses (~50 seats each).
other: Railcars, inspection vehicles and other rolling stock.
spec sheet
- built
- 2021
- in service from
- 2021
- status
- in service
- number built
- 10
- kind
- other
- origin
- 🇨🇿 Czech Republic
- builders
- Siemens Mobility, Škoda Transportation
- operators
- České dráhy
- top speed
- 230 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- length
- 26 m
- capacity
- 154 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q123010154, Wikipedia: Siemens Vectrain (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.