Corail

what is it?

Corail is the name given to a class of passenger rail cars of the SNCF that first entered commercial service in 1975. When introduced, the Corail carriages had improved passenger comfort, featured air-conditioning, and better levels of suspension and sound-proofing compared with previous InterCity carriages.

who runs it

Société nationale des chemins de fer français

base stats

• speed 200 km/htop speed
• weight 42 tin working order
• built 3,892made in total

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 51 years ago, in 1975.
• 🏎️Top speed is 1.5× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
• ⏱️At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 12 minutes.
• 🐘Weighs about as much as 7 African elephants (~6 t each).
• 📏26.4 m long: about 6 cars parked nose to tail.
• 🧓Still in service after 51 years.

carriage / wagon: Unpowered passenger coaches or freight wagons, pulled by a locomotive.

spec sheet

built

1975

in service from

1975

status

in service

number built

3,892

kind

carriage / wagon

origin

🇫🇷 France

builders

Societe Franco Belge

operators

Société nationale des chemins de fer français

top speed

200 km/h

power

—

length

26.4 m

weight

42 t

From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.