Stadler SMILE

what is it?

The Stadler SMILE is a high-speed electric multiple unit train built by Stadler Rail of Switzerland for the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) and Westbahn from 2017. According to Stadler, it was the world's first single-decker low-floor high-speed train. The trains replaced the RABe 503 trains on the trans-Alpine route between Milan and Basel / Zurich, and are to be used for further connections to Germany and Austria.

who runs it

Swiss Federal RailwaysWESTbahn

base stats

• speed 250 km/htop speed
• power 4.8 MWpower output
• weight 380 tin working order
• seats 403passengers

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 7 years ago, in 2019.
• 🏎️Top speed is 1.9× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
• ⏱️At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 10 minutes.
• 🚗4.8 MW is about 56 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
• 🐘Weighs about as much as 63 African elephants (~6 t each).
• 📏202 m long: about 45 cars parked nose to tail.
• 🧍Seats 403: 8 full city buses (~50 seats each).

high-speed train: Built for 200–350 km/h on dedicated lines, like the TGV, ICE or Shinkansen.

spec sheet

built

2019

in service from

2019

number built

—

kind

Electric multiple unit

traction

electric

origin

🇨🇭 Switzerland

builders

Stadler Rail

operators

Swiss Federal Railways, WESTbahn

top speed

250 km/h

power

4.8 MW

gauge

1,435 mm standard gauge

electric system

*

length

202 m

weight

380 t

capacity

403 passengers

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