🚆 multiple unit ✓ in service
3 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. NIR MPV, Adelaide: Milepost98· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. NIR MPV no. 11: WakefulNI· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. NIR MPV no. 11 at Ballymena: WakefulNI· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Multi-purpose vehicle is a purpose built departmental derivative of a diesel multiple unit constructed for use as a rail adhesion vehicle by NI Railways in Northern Ireland.
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 10 years ago, in 2016.
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 2016
- in service from
- 2016
- status
- in service
- number built
- 1
- kind
- multiple unit
- origin
- 🇮🇪 Ireland
- builders
- Windhoff Bahn- und Anlagentechnik
- operators
- NI Railways
- top speed
- 100 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,600 mm Irish broad gauge
- formation
- 1 cars
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
family
Sources: Wikidata Q30590186, Wikipedia: NIR MPV (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.