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Eurasia
🇷🇺 Russia ·built by Stadler Rail· from 2015· Russian gauge version of the Stadler KISS train
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2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Stadler KISS for Georgian Railways (cropped): Nodara95· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. ESh2-001 Belorusskiy zoomed train: Д.Гришкин (пресс-служба Мэра и Правительства Москвы)· CC BY 4.0
what is it?
The ESh2 Eurasia (Russian: ЭШ2 «Евразия», also Yevraziya) is the Russian gauge version of the Stadler KISS double-deck electric train. These trains are used by three operators— Aeroexpress, Azerbaijan Railways and Georgian Railways.
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 11 years ago, in 2015.
- 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.
- 6 MW is about 71 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 58 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 250 m long: about 56 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 700: 14 full city buses (~50 seats each).
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 2015
- in service from
- 2015
- status
- in service
- number built
- —
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇷🇺 Russia
- builders
- Stadler Rail
- operators
- Aeroexpress, Azerbaijan Railways, Georgian Railway
- top speed
- 200 km/h
- power
- 6 MW
- gauge
- 1,520 mm Russian broad gauge
- electric system
- 3 kV DC overhead line
- wheel arrangement
- 2′2′+Bo′Bo′+2′2′+Bo′Bo′+2′2′+2′2′
- formation
- 6 or 4 cars
- length
- 250 m
- weight
- 349 t
- capacity
- 700 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
family
Sources: Wikidata Q18407971, Wikipedia: Eurasia (train) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.