#6367· MGB ABDeh 4/8
Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn ABDeh 4/8
🇨🇭 Switzerland ·built by Stadler Rail· Swiss mixed rack and adhesion trainset
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. MGB-2022+2011: Spoorjan· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn ABDeh 4/8, also known as Komet, is a two member class of metre gauge electric trains operated by the Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn (MGB), in the Canton of Valais, Switzerland. The class is so named under the Swiss locomotive and railcar classification system. According to that system, ABDeh 4/8 denotes an electric railcar with first class, second class and baggage compartments, and a total of eight axles, four of which are drive axles fitted with cogwheels for rack rail operation.
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
- 325 kW is about 4 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 13 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 56.6 m long: about 13 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 114: 2 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
- —
- number built
- 2
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇨🇭 Switzerland
- builders
- Stadler Rail
- operators
- Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn
- top speed
- 80 km/h
- power
- 325 kW
- gauge
- 1,000 mm metre gauge
- electric system
- 11 kV 16.7 Hz
- wheel arrangement
- Adhesion: 2'Bo'Bo'2'
- length
- 56.6 m
- weight
- 77 t
- capacity
- 114 passengers
- Dutch name
- MGB ABDeh 4/8
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
family
Sources: Wikidata Q2552907, Wikipedia: Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn ABDeh 4/8 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.