The Alstom Coradia LINT is an

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of the

Alstom Coradia The Alstom Coradia is a family of diesel multiple units, electric multiple units, and unpowered Railroad_car, rail cars for Inter-city rail, intercity and Regional rail, regional service manufactured by Alstom, with variants operating in Europ ...

family manufactured by

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since 1999, offered in diesel and

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models. The

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''LINT'' is short for the German ''"leichter innovativer Nahverkehrstriebwagen"'' (light innovative local transport rail vehicle). It was designed by

Linke-Hofmann-Busch Alstom Transport Deutschland, formerly Linke-Hofmann-Busch, is a German manufacturing company originally established in Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland) to produce locomotives and rolling stock. Its origins lay in the wheelwright business of Gott ...

(LHB; acquired 1996 by Alstom) and has been distributed as part of Alstom's Coradia family.

Description

The type designation gives the vehicle's length: the one-piece type LINT 27 has a length of and is also known as ''Baureihe 640'' (DB class 640) of

Deutsche Bahn (, ; abbreviated as DB or DB AG ) is the national railway company of Germany, and a state-owned enterprise under the control of the German government. Headquartered in the Bahntower in Berlin, it is a joint-stock company ( AG). DB was fou ...

. The two-part train with a Jacobs-bogie, LINT 41, is long. In Germany it is classified as ''Baureihe 648'' ( DB Class 648), ''Baureihe 0623'' and ''Baureihe 1648''. Trainsets LINT 54 ''Baureihe 0622'' using two car bodies and LINT 81 ''Baureihe 0620/0621'' using three car bodies have been introduced in 2013. The Alstom Coradia LINT is part of Alstom Coradia family of Inter-city trains which includes

multiple unit A multiple-unit train (or multiple unit (MU)) is a self-propelled train composed of one or more Coach (rail), carriages joined, and where one or more of the carriages have the means of propulsion built in. By contrast, a locomotive-hauled ...

diesel (DMU) or electric (EMU) as well as double-decker trains. The LINT family offers capacities ranging from 70 to 300 seated passengers. They operate at top speeds up to 140 km/h (87 mph). The Coradia LINT trains are manufactured in

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in Germany. Other types of the Coradia range are the A-TER Class X 73500 manufactured in

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in France and the Coradia Minuetto manufactured in

Savigliano Savigliano () is a of Piedmont, Northern Italy, in the Province of Cuneo, about south of Turin by rail. It is home to ironworks, foundries, locomotive works (once owned by Fiat Ferroviaria, now by Alstom) and silk manufactures, as well as sugar ...

in Italy.

LINT 27

The one-piece

s have engines and a maximum speed of . The train has 52 2nd class seats, eight 1st class seats and 13 tip-up seats. Up to three cars can run together in

form. The trains are predominantly used on non-electrified light railways in

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amongst other regions.

LINT 41 and LINT 54

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O-Train The O-Train is a light rail system in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, operated by OC Transpo. The O-Train system consists of three lines, all of which are fully Grade separation, grade-separated. As of March 2025, one line is currently being extended an ...

in Ottawa, Canada RB95 AuSieg.jpg, LINT 41 of

DB Regio DB Regio AG () is a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn which operates regional and commuter train services in Germany. It is a 100% subsidiary of the Deutsche Bahn Group and therefore part of the DB Regio business segment, which also includes DB Regionn ...

in Germany DSC06084 FKE LINT 41 vor Burg Königstein.jpg, LINT 41 of

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, Germany VLEXX 622904 at Mainz Hbf.jpg, LINT 54 of

Vlexx Vlexx GmbH (stylized in lowercase in its logo) is a rail transport company based in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany; it is a subsidiary of the Regentalbahn, which in turn has been part of the Italian state railway Ferrovie dello Stato (FS ...

at Mainz Hbf LINT-DE specs.png, Specifications of an O-Train LINT 41 train Both the LINT 41 and LINT 54 consist of two parts. The longer carriage length of the LINT 54 allows for an extra set of doors per carriage, whilst the LINT 41 has only one set per carriage. Some transportation companies offer ticket machines in the door area. The trainsets are equipped with diesel engines with a rated power of , or depending on their delivery date. LINT 27 are equipped with a single engine, LINT 41 with two engines, LINT 54 with two or three engines, LINT 81 with four engines. The trains are mainly used in

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and

. They are also quite popular in other European countries. For example, in

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they are being used by the largest non-state-owned operator,

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(a total of 43 units: 30 delivered in 2004–2005, 11 delivered in 2010–11 and 2 delivered in 2012) as well as by

Lokalbanen A/S Lokalbanen A/S (''The Local Railway'', abbreviated LB) was a Danish railway company responsible for train operation and related passenger services on five local railways north of Copenhagen, Denmark. The company was formed in 2001, and merged wit ...

and

Regionstog Regionstog A/S was a Danish railway company responsible for train operation on three private railway lines in Region Zealand: the Tølløse Line, the East Line and the Lolland Line. It was established in 2009 when Vestsjællands Lokalbaner A ...

(a total of 42 units delivered in 2006–2007). In the eastern provinces of the

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, they are operated by Keolis Nederland (formerly Syntus). They are also used in

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. Alstom delivered six new trains to operate on the

Trillium Line in

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. The new trains went into service on 2 March 2015, displacing the previous

Bombardier Talent The Talent is a multiple unit light train manufactured by Bombardier that was developed by Waggonfabrik Talbot in Aachen shortly before the company was acquired by Bombardier in 1995. The name ''Talent'' is an acronym in German for ''TALbot L ...

fleet. In 2019

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in Sweden bought 5 used LINT 41 from the Netherlands. They have been upgraded for usage on longer distances and are used for traffic in 2020. Lint 41 has 115 seats, while the Lint 54 can have between 150 and 180 seats.

LINT 81

620 502 - LINT 81.jpg, DB LINT 81 prior to entering service VLEXX 620416 at Mainz Hbf.jpg, vlexx LINT 81 at Mainz Hbf DB 620024 at Bonn Hbf.jpg, DB LINT 81 at Bonn Hbf The LINT 81 is a three carriage set, with two driving vehicles with cabs, and an intermediate vehicle for passenger accommodation only. In September 2012, Netinera ordered 63 Coradia LINT trains from Alstom, which would be used on services in

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. The order included some LINT 54 DMUs (160 seats) and 18 Lint 81 (270 seats).

iLint

The Coradia iLint is a version of the Coradia Lint 54 powered by a

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. Announced at InnoTrans 2016, the new model is the world's first production hydrogen-powered trainset. The Coradia iLint is able to reach and travel on a full tank of hydrogen. It is assembled at Alstom's Salzgitter plant. It began rolling tests at in March 2017. On 16 September 2018, the first Coradia iLint entered service on the

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- Bremervörde-

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line in Lower Saxony, Germany. A mobile hydrogen filling station refuels the trains, but a stationary station is set to be built by 2021, along with 14 more train sets. In 2019,

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, the transit network serving the

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region, ordered 27 iLint multiple-units to be delivered by December 2022. Each train will have 160 seats. The units will replace diesel trains currently plying the RB11 Frankfurt-Höchst – Bad Soden, RB12 Frankfurt – Königstein, RB15 Frankfurt – Bad Homburg – Brandoberndorf and RB16 Friedrichsdorf – Friedberg routes. The iLint operated its first North American route as a demonstration service from Montmorency Falls to

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, in summer 2023. InnoTrans 2016 – Alstom iLint with Fuel Cell Batteries (29782914176).jpg, iLint DSC09375 iLint auf Brücke zwischen Main-Lahn-Bahn und Werksbahn Industriepark Höchst über Hoechster Farbenstraße.jpg, iLint of

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on the way to its filling station at industrial park Höchst

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Alstom Coradia Lint Alstom Coradia LINT LINT Hydrogen rolling stock Multiple units of Canada Train-related introductions in 1999