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Stadler KISS

🇨🇭 Switzerland ·built by Stadler Rail· from 2011· Swiss bilevel electric multiple unit commuter trainset

10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences

1. RABe 511 001: Alainkaa· Public domain
2. SŽ 313 018 (53348571407): Nelso Silva from Porto, Portugal· CC BY-SA 2.0
3. SBB RABe 511: Kabelleger / David Gubler ( http://www.bahnbilder.ch )· CC BY-SA 3.0
4. BLS RABe 515: Kabelleger / David Gubler· CC BY-SA 3.0
5. CFL Class 2300: MMFE· CC BY-SA 4.0
6. ODEG ET 445: Michał Beim· CC BY-SA 3.0
7. ESh2: Nodara95· CC BY-SA 4.0
8. Railjet 3. generation: EliVog· CC BY-SA 4.0
9. Stadler KISS of Caltrain: Caltrain· Public domain
10. ZSSK Class 561: ET4010· CC BY 4.0

what is it?

The Stadler KISS is a family of bilevel electric multiple unit commuter trains developed and built since 2008 by Stadler Rail of Switzerland. As of 2025, around 700 KISS trainsets have been sold to operators in 14 countries. Boarding is done into the lower deck.

who runs it

Swiss Federal Railways Austrian Federal Railways Ostdeutsche Eisenbahn DB Regio Železničná spoločnosť Slovensko DB Fernverkehr BLS AG WESTbahn Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois WestfalenBahn Tåg i Bergslagen Srbijavoz

base stats

speed 200 km/htop speed
power 6 MWpower output
weight 296 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

First built 15 years ago, in 2011.
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 49 African elephants (~6 t each).
25 m long: about 6 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: 2011
in service from: 2013
status: in service
number built: —
kind: multiple unit
traction: electric
origin: 🇨🇭 Switzerland
builders: Stadler Rail
operators: Swiss Federal Railways, Austrian Federal Railways, Ostdeutsche Eisenbahn, DB Regio, Železničná spoločnosť Slovensko, DB Fernverkehr, BLS AG, WESTbahn, Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois, WestfalenBahn, Tåg i Bergslagen, Srbijavoz
top speed: 200 km/h
power: 6 MW
gauge: 1,435 mm standard gauge
formation: EMUs: Up to 7 cars per train, DMUs: 8 cars per train
length: 25 m
weight: 296 t

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

family

Sources: Wikidata Q672992, Wikipedia: Stadler KISS (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.