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FNM Socimi coaches

🇮🇹 Italy ·built by Socimi· from 1981· class of Italian passenger cars

FNM Socimi coaches, photo 1 of 1
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what is it?

The Socimi coaches of the Ferrovie Nord Milano, also known as type hinterland, are a class of railway coaches for commuter trains, built in the 1980s by Socimi. The coaches have been used together with E.620 locomotives or E.750 railcars. At this moment they are going to be scrapped, substituted by the double-deck railcars E.760 and E.710.

who runs it

base stats

  • weight 37 tin working order
  • seats 92passengers
  • built 40made 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 45 years ago, in 1981.
  • Weighs about as much as 6 African elephants (~6 t each).
  • 25.4 m long: about 6 cars parked nose to tail.
  • Served for 34 years (1981–2015).

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

spec sheet

built
1981
in service from
1981
retired
2015
status
retired
number built
40
kind
carriage / wagon
origin
🇮🇹 Italy
builders
Socimi
operators
Ferrovie Nord Milano
top speed
—
power
—
gauge
1,435 mm standard gauge
length
25.4 m
weight
37 t
capacity
92 passengers

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

Sources: Wikidata Q3660769, Wikipedia: FNM Socimi coaches (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.

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