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CAF Sepia is a family of high-speed
RENFE ordered twelve units in 2001, and a further 45 units in 2004Renfe define su encargo de trenes de ancho variable, series 120 y 130
''www.vialibre-ffe.com'' 29 units of the class RENFE Class 121 were ordered for medium-distance high-speed Avant services. The units are very similar to the Class 120 but include additional electrical equipment for redundancy (a requirement for trains using the Guadarrama Tunnel), and do not provide first class seating, raising the number of seats to 282.
- First High Speed Train set arrived in Turkey Later, 4 more sets came to Turkey in 2008, 3 more in 2009 and 2 more in 2010. On March 13 2009 YHT service was started by one of these sets. Subsequently, 2 additional sets were ordered with the same characteristics, reaching a total of twelve HT65000 trains.{{cite web, url=http://www.caf.net/en/productos-servicios/proyectos/proyecto-detalle.php?p=24, title=Technical specifications of TCDD HT65000, publisher= CAF, accessdate=15 July 2016
electric multiple unit
An electric multiple unit or EMU is a multiple-unit train consisting of self-propelled carriages using electricity as the motive power. An EMU requires no separate locomotive, as electric traction motors are incorporated within one or a numbe ...
trains built by CAF and used in Spain and Turkey. The Sepia is based on the Class 120 high-speed trains manufactured by CAF for the Renfe Operadora (RENFE). The Renfe Operadora was the first to order CAF high speed trains; it ordered 12 of these units in 2001, the Turkish State Railways
The State Railways of the Republic of Turkey ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Devlet Demiryolları), abbreviated as TCDD, is a government-owned national railway company responsible with the ownership and maintenance of railway infrastructure in Turkey ...
(TCDD) 12 units. The trains were delivered in 2004 for service. The trains were labelled and marketed as the Sepia by their manufacturer, CAF.
RENFE Class 120/121
RENFE ordered twelve units in 2001, and a further 45 units in 2004''www.vialibre-ffe.com'' 29 units of the class RENFE Class 121 were ordered for medium-distance high-speed Avant services. The units are very similar to the Class 120 but include additional electrical equipment for redundancy (a requirement for trains using the Guadarrama Tunnel), and do not provide first class seating, raising the number of seats to 282.
HT65000
Turkish State Railways
The State Railways of the Republic of Turkey ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Devlet Demiryolları), abbreviated as TCDD, is a government-owned national railway company responsible with the ownership and maintenance of railway infrastructure in Turkey ...
ordered 12 Sepia tilting trains for its main lines. The 6-car trains, delivered as HT65000, were derived from the Alvia Class 120, 121.The HT65000 can reach a maximum speed of 250 km/h, in revenue service on the Turkish high-speed railway network, the maximum it reaches is 250 km/h between Istanbul Haydarpaşa railway station and Ankara Railway Station stations and between Ankara Railway Station and Konya Railway Station.
The first set left Spain on November 10, 2007 and arrived in Turkey at Kapıkule
Kapıkule is the name of the Turkish border crossing point in Edirne Province on the border of Turkey and Bulgaria. Its counterpart on the Bulgarian side is Kapitan Andreevo. Together, they form the busiest land border crossing point in Europe. ...
on November 20, 2007.TCDD English Site- First High Speed Train set arrived in Turkey Later, 4 more sets came to Turkey in 2008, 3 more in 2009 and 2 more in 2010. On March 13 2009 YHT service was started by one of these sets. Subsequently, 2 additional sets were ordered with the same characteristics, reaching a total of twelve HT65000 trains.{{cite web, url=http://www.caf.net/en/productos-servicios/proyectos/proyecto-detalle.php?p=24, title=Technical specifications of TCDD HT65000, publisher= CAF, accessdate=15 July 2016
See also
*Pendolino
Pendolino (from Italian ''pendolo'' "pendulum", and ''-ino,'' a diminutive suffix) is an Italian family of tilting trains used in Italy, Spain, Germany, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Finland, Russia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, the UK, the US, ...
* New Pendolino
The New Pendolino is a class of high-speed tilting trains built by Alstom Ferroviaria ( Fiat Ferroviaria) for Trenitalia and Cisalpino. It is derived from a model developed for the Chinese operator Changchun Railway Company, and subsequently dev ...
* Bombardier Regina
* ICE T
DBAG Class 411 and Class 415 are German tilting electric multiple-unit high-speed trains in service with DB Fernverkehr, commonly known as ICE T.
Development
Following the successful inauguration of the Intercity-Express system in 199 ...
* List of high-speed trains
The following is a list of high-speed trains that have been, are, or will be in commercial service.
A high-speed train is generally defined as one which operates at or over in regular passenger service, with a high level of service, and often ...
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