#4956· Dubbeldeksinterregiomaterieel
NS VIRM
🇳🇱 Netherlands ·built by Waggonfabrik Talbot· from 1994· electric multiple unit, Verlengd InterRegio Materieel
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7 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. NS VIRM - station Apeldoorn Osseveld: Jan Derk Remmers· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. Horst-Sevenum IRM 9585 IC 13553 Venlo (32524093940) (2): Rob Dammers· CC BY 2.0
- 3. Virmm: Rob Dammers· CC BY 2.0
- 4. VIRM 8632: Jeroen74· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 5. VIRM 9524 met reclame voor de OV Chipkaart: NovioSites· Public domain
- 6. VIRM 9553 Eindhoven: Mauritsvink· Public domain
- 7. VIRM Culemborg: User:Willem_90· Public domain
what is it?
VIRM trains, full name Verlengd InterRegio Materieel (transl. Lengthened interregional rolling stock), are a series of electric multiple unit (EMU) double-deck trains operated by Nederlandse Spoorwegen or NS (Dutch Railways), the principal railway operator in the Netherlands. NS has 178 of these double-deckers – 98 four-carriage sets, and 80 six-carriage sets. The trains were built between 1994 and 2009 – for the most part by Talbot with some railcars built by De Dietrich.
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 32 years ago, in 1994.
- Top speed is 1.2× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 15 minutes.
- 2.4 MW is about 28 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Seats 571: 11 full city buses (~50 seats each).
- Still in service after 32 years.
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1994
- in service from
- 1994
- status
- in service
- number built
- 178
- kind
- Electric multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇳🇱 Netherlands
- builders
- Waggonfabrik Talbot
- operators
- Nederlandse Spoorwegen
- top speed
- 160 km/h
- power
- 2.4 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- electric system
- 1.5 kV DC Catenary; all units have extra space for equipment to operate on 25 kV AC Catenary
- formation
- 6 cars (8600/8700), 4 cars (9400/9500)
- capacity
- 571 passengers
- Dutch name
- Dubbeldeksinterregiomaterieel
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q284496, Wikipedia: NS VIRM (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.