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Stadler GTW

🇳🇱 Netherlands ·built by Stadler Rail· electric or diesel or hybrid multiple unit

Stadler GTW, photo 1 of 10
1/10 Kabelleger / David Gubler ( http://www.bahnbilder.ch )· GFDL

what is it?

The Stadler GTW (German: Gelenktriebwagen, lit. 'articulated railcar') is an articulated railcar for local transport made by Stadler Rail of Switzerland. The vehicles can be built for metre, standard and Iberian gauges and can use diesel or electric power supply. Variants have also been produced for use on rack railways.

who runs it

base stats

  • weight 72.4 tin working order

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

  • Weighs about as much as 12 African elephants (~6 t each).
  • 53 m long: about 12 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
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number built
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kind
multiple unit
traction
bi-mode
origin
🇳🇱 Netherlands
builders
Stadler Rail
operators
R-net, Breng
top speed
—
power
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gauge
1,000 mm metre gauge
wheel arrangement
2′+Bo′+2′ (GTW 2/6)
length
53 m
weight
72.4 t

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

family

Sources: Wikidata Q689485, Wikipedia: Stadler GTW (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.

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