Talgo AVRIL

what is it?

Talgo Avril is a top and tail high-speed power car trainset made by Talgo. It stands for "Alta Velocidad Rueda Independiente Ligero" (roughly translated as "Light High-Speed Independent Wheel"). The trains are designated as Class 106 by Renfe, Spain's national railway operator.

base stats

• speed 380 km/htop speed
• power 8.8 MWpower output
• weight 325 tin working order
• seats 581passengers
• built 30made in total

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

• 🏎️Top speed is 2.9× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
• ⏱️At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 6 minutes.
• 🚗8.8 MW is about 104 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
• 🐘Weighs about as much as 54 African elephants (~6 t each).
• 📏202 m long: about 45 cars parked nose to tail.
• 🧍Seats 581: 12 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

—

number built

30

kind

high-speed train

traction

electric

origin

🇪🇸 Spain

builders

Talgo

top speed

380 km/h

power

8.8 MW

gauge

1,435 mm standard gauge

formation

12 passenger cars, 2 power cars

length

202 m

weight

325 t

capacity

581 passengers

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