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what is it?
The Metallic trainsets were three batches (5th, 6th and 7th) of two-car electric multiple units (EMU), which used to be part of Athens-Piraeus Electric Railways (ISAP). They were built by SSW, MAN and Siemens on which they were put into service in 1976, when it was founded. They could fit up to 318 (112 seated 236 and standing passengers, couple with a baggage coach) or 353 (208 seated and 247 standing, couple without a baggage coach) passengers, engine either SSW DT 861 D with Kw 95/60 ΜΙΝ power (5th batch) or SSW GB 230/14 A with Kw 120/60min power (6th and 7th batch) and windows either the same height (6th and 7th batch) or the two side windows being smaller than the middle one (5th batch), but always with the same speed.
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 75 years ago, in 1951.
- Weighs about as much as 11 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 17 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
- 1951
- in service from
- 1951
- number built
- 74
- kind
- multiple unit
- origin
- 🇬🇷 Greece
- builders
- Siemens-Schuckert
- operators
- Hellenic Electric Railways, Athens-Piraeus Electric Railways
- top speed
- 80 km/h
- power
- —
- formation
- 2-car sets
- length
- 17 m
- weight
- 67.8 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q97364938, Wikipedia: ISAP metallic trainsets (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.