#6368· MGB BDSeh 4/8
Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn BDSeh 4/8
🇨🇭 Switzerland ·built by Stadler Rail· Swiss mixed rack and adhesion trainset
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Zermatt-Shuttle, MGB BDSeh 48: Kabelleger / David Gubler ( http://www.bahnbilder.ch )· GFDL
what is it?
The Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn BDSeh 4/8 is a four member class of metre gauge electric multiple units operated by the Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn (MGB), in the Canton of Valais, Switzerland. They have partially panoramic, articulated bodies, and were the first new items of powered rolling stock to be placed into service by the MGB. Since entering the MGB fleet, the BDSeh 4/8 multiple units have been used to operate the Zermatt shuttle trains. These trains link Zermatt railway station, which serves the car-free mountaineering and ski resort of Zermatt, with Täsch railway station, where there is a large parking station for people travelling to or from Zermatt by road vehicle.
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
- 1 MW is about 12 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 12 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 52 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
- —
- number built
- 4
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇨🇭 Switzerland
- builders
- Stadler Rail
- operators
- Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn
- top speed
- 80 km/h
- power
- 1 MW
- gauge
- 1,000 mm metre gauge
- electric system
- 11 kV 16.7 Hz
- wheel arrangement
- 2′Bo′zz Bo′zz 2′
- length
- 52 m
- weight
- 69 t
- Dutch name
- MGB BDSeh 4/8
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q677408, Wikipedia: Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn BDSeh 4/8 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.