#2839· RhB ABe 4/4 I
Rhaetian Railway ABe 4/4 I
🇨🇭 Switzerland ·built by SIG Group· from 1946· Swiss metre-gauge railcar class
4 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Swiss Rail Rhb ABe 4 4: Peter elektro· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. RhB ABe 4 30 + 34 in Pontresina: Bortz60· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3. RhB ABe 4 34 in Pontresina: Bortz60· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 4. RhB ABe 44 I Nummer 31: Manfred Kopka· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Rhaetian Railway ABe 4/4 I is a class of metre gauge railcars of the Rhaetian Railway (RhB), which is the main railway network in the Canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. The class is so named because it was the first class of railcars of the Swiss locomotive and railcar classification type ABe 4/4 to be acquired by the Rhaetian Railway. According to that classification system, ABe 4/4 denotes an electric railcar with first and second class compartments and a total of four axles, all of which are drive axles.
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 80 years ago, in 1946.
- 396 kW is about 5 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 5 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 13.9 m long: about 3 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
- 1946
- number built
- 17
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇨🇭 Switzerland
- builders
- SIG Group, Oerlikon Works
- operators
- Rhaetian Railway
- top speed
- 55 km/h
- power
- 396 kW
- gauge
- 1,000 mm metre gauge
- electric system
- 1000 V DC Overhead
- wheel arrangement
- Bo′Bo′
- length
- 13.9 m
- weight
- 30 t
- Dutch name
- RhB ABe 4/4 I
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q869957, Wikipedia: Rhaetian Railway ABe 4/4 I (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.