The Regina is a

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model of electric multiple unit

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, manufactured by

Bombardier Transportation Bombardier Transportation was a Canadian-German rolling stock and rail transport manufacturer, headquartered in Berlin, Germany. It was one of the world's largest companies in the rail vehicle and equipment manufacturing and servicing indus ...

(formerly Adtranz). It is used by the national passenger railway SJ along with numerous regional and private operators, in variants designated X50, X51, X52, X53, X54 and X55, and in two-, three-, and four-carriage models. The Regina units are short trains built for local and regional service. The Regina is wider than other Swedish trains; at , it allows five-across seating, increasing passenger capacity by 25%. The car body is built of stainless steel, with only bolsters and coupler pockets made of

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. The length is , and , and the capacity 165-294 seats. A variant of the Regina is used in China as the CRH1. Unlike

X 2000 X 2000, also called SJ X2 or simply as X2, is an electric tilting train operated by SJ in Sweden. It was constructed by Kalmar Verkstad in Kalmar, Sweden (prior to the company being bought by Adtranz in 1996) and launched in 1990 as a f ...

, Regina trainsets are corrugateless due to eliminate

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instead. Top speeds of various models range from . As part of the Gröna tåget ("the green train") project, a modified X52 train set the Swedish rail-speed record of on 14 September 2008; the goal was to reach in regular service.

X55, new high-speed train

In late 2007 it was announced that SJ were ordering twenty units furnished for inter-city service. These trains, designated X55 (also marketed as SJ 3000), were delivered during 2011 and 2012, and are used on the routes connecting Stockholm with destinations like Sundsvall, Karlstad and

Falun Falun () is a city and the seat of Falun Municipality in Dalarna County, Sweden, with 37,291 inhabitants in 2010. It is also the capital of Dalarna County. Falun forms, together with Borlänge, a metropolitan area with just over 100,000 inhabi ...

, allowing the displaced

units to be used instead to lengthen the busy trains running to Gothenburg and

Malmö Malmö (, ; da, Malmø ) is the largest city in the Swedish county (län) of Scania (Skåne). It is the third-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the sixth-largest city in the Nordic region, with a municipal popula ...

. These units are four-carriage trains with a first-class section and an on-board bistro; four-across seating. There is an option for another 20 units.

Gallery

File:X-Tåget på Gävle Centralstation 2005-05-14.JPG, An X-Tåget Regina at Gävle Central Station File:Västtrafik X50.JPG, Västtrafik X50 at

Nässjö Nässjö () is a locality and the seat of Nässjö Municipality, Jönköping County, Sweden with 16,678 inhabitants in 2010. History For many years, Nässjö was a rural village with agriculture as the dominant occupation. The turning point was t ...

C File:Västtrafik X50 interior.JPG, Västtrafik X50 interior File:Västtågen Regina 3.jpg, X50-B in

Skövde Skövde () is a locality and urban centre in Skövde Municipality and Västra Götaland County, in the Västergötland (Western Gothland region) in central Southern Sweden. Skövde is situated some 150 km northeast of Gothenburg, between ...

File:Tågkompaniet Regina Åre.JPG, Tågkompaniet X51 in Åre File:Reginatåg.jpg, Norrtåg X52 (ex-''Gröna tåget'' trainset) in Hallsberg File:SJ 3276.JPG, SJ X52-2 at Gothenburg Central Station File:Högboda Regina2.JPG, Värmlandstrafik X53 in Högboda File:Regina X55 in Örnsköldsvik.jpg, SJ X55 in

Örnsköldsvik Örnsköldsvik (, ) is a locality and the seat of Örnsköldsvik Municipality in Västernorrland County, Sweden, with 32,953 inhabitants in 2017. Its natural harbour and archipelago is in the Gulf of Bothnia and the northern boundaries of the Hig ...

File:SJ X3 (X3000) interior.jpg, SJ X55 interior

References

External links

Regina official siteGröna tåget projectJärnväg.net Regina page
{{Swedish railway stock Bombardier Transportation multiple units High-speed trains of Sweden Multiple units of Sweden SJ multiple units Passenger trains running at least at 200 km/h in commercial operations 2000 establishments in Sweden 15 kV AC multiple units

X55, new high-speed train

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