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Innovia Metro
🇨🇦 Canada ·built by Urban Transportation Development Corporation· from 1985· rolling stock class
4 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Bombardier Innovia Metro 300 Set 72 at Pasar Seni, Kuala Lumpur 20231114 102833: Wiki Farazi· CC0
- 2. S series: Adam E. Moreira· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3. Changchun Bombardier INNOVIA ART 200 QKZ5/CCD3004: user:snowyowls· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 4. Bombardier Innovia Metro 300 set 73: Aliff MR· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
Innovia Metro is an automated rapid transit system manufactured by Alstom. Innovia Metro systems run on conventional metal rails and pull power from a third rail but are powered by a linear induction motor that provides traction by using magnetic force to pull on a "fourth rail" (a flat aluminum slab) placed between the running rails. However, newer versions of the technology are available with standard electric rotary propulsion.
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
- First built 41 years ago, in 1985.
- Still in service after 41 years.
metro: Urban rapid transit: frequent, high-capacity trains, often underground.
spec sheet
- built
- 1985
- in service from
- 1985
- status
- in service
- number built
- —
- kind
- metro
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇨🇦 Canada
- builders
- Urban Transportation Development Corporation, ALSTOM Transportation Germany, Alstom
- designer
- UTDC
- operators
- Rapid KL, AirTrain JFK, Everline, Riyadh Metro
- top speed
- 100 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- electric system
- 650–750 V DC Railway electrification system#Fourth rail, fourth rail Linear induction motor, linear induction (linear motor), 600 V DC fift…
- formation
- 1–6 car trainsets
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
family
Sources: Wikidata Q4940487, Wikipedia: Innovia Metro (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.