The Treno Servizio Regionale (TSR) are a series of double-decker

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used by the Lombard railway company

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for the commuter services around

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, and particularly for the suburban lines.

Description

Each train is composed by several railcars; some of them have a cab and a wheelchair bay for

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(MCH), and some of them have neither (M). ″MCH″-railcars were numbered by LeNord as E.711, ″M″-ones as E.710. In total, 208 MCH and 252 M railcars were built. The traincars can be formed into trains consisting of 3 (MCH + M + MCH) to 6 cars (MCH + M + M + M + M + MCH).

History

The TSR were conceived by

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and Firema as an evolution of the TAF-EMUs built in the 1990s. The first unit was delivered to the railway company LeNord (later merged into

) on 1 August 2006. The last train was delivered on 31 March 2012.''Notizie flash.'' In: ″I Treni″ Nr. 349 (June 2012), p. 8.

Operators

References

Bibliography

* Vittorio Mario Cortese, ''Potenza dei TSR!'' In: ″I Treni″ Nr. 300 & 301 (January & February 2008), p. 16–21 & 12–17.

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