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Stadler FLIRT

🇨🇭 Switzerland ·built by Stadler Rail· from 2004· Swiss built multiple unit passenger trainset

🚆 multiple unit
10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
  1. 1. FFS RABe 522 205 Basel SBB 180611: NAC· CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. 2. Keolis FLIRT 7407 te Amersfoort (38748360521): Roel Hemkes from Amersfoort, Netherlands· CC BY 2.0
  3. 3. JKOY Class Sm5: Eetu Forssell· CC BY-SA 4.0
  4. 4. TPF RABe 527: Kabelleger / David Gubler ( http://www.bahnbilder.ch )· CC BY-SA 3.0
  5. 5. RABe 522: Remontees· CC BY-SA 4.0
  6. 6. SBB RABe 524: Spoorjan· CC BY-SA 3.0
  7. 7. BCh Class EPR: Neu-Zwei· CC BY-SA 4.0
  8. 8. Belarusian Railway ЭПг: Pjotr Mahhonin· CC BY-SA 4.0
  9. 9. CZ Class 480: Petr Štefek· CC BY-SA 3.0 cz
  10. 10. 5D411398 Stadler Flirt 3 JM 2024-05-01: Johannes Maximilian· GFDL 1.2
Read about it on Wikipedia ↗
Stadler FLIRT, photo 1 of 10
1/10 NAC· CC BY-SA 3.0

what is it?

Stadler FLIRT (Fast Light Innovative Regional Train) is a family of passenger multiple unit trainsets made by Stadler Rail of Switzerland. The trains have a maximum speed of 127 to 200 kilometres per hour (79 to 124 mph). While the standard FLIRT is an EMU powered by overhead lines, a modular PowerPack car can be added for off-wire operation.

who runs it

Swiss Federal RailwaysSerbian RailwaysBelarusian RailwayComboios de PortugalVyGreater AngliaKeolis NederlandDB RegioNederlandse SpoorwegenTransdev S.A.TrenitaliaTreni Regionali Ticino LombardiaConnexxionSAD

base stats

  • built 3,000made 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 22 years ago, in 2004.
  • 15.7 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
2004
number built
3,000
kind
multiple unit
origin
🇨🇭 Switzerland
builders
Stadler Rail
operators
Swiss Federal Railways, Serbian Railways, Belarusian Railway, Comboios de Portugal, Vy, Greater Anglia, Keolis Nederland, DB Regio, Nederlandse Spoorwegen, Transdev S.A., Trenitalia, Treni Regionali Ticino Lombardia, Connexxion, SAD
top speed
—
power
—
length
15.7 m

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

family

JKOY Class Sm52009British Rail Class 7552019British Rail Class 7452020British Rail Class 2312023British Rail Class 7562024

Sources: Wikidata Q668935, Wikipedia: Stadler FLIRT (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.

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