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Image:TransilienGCO Nois2 stnom.jpg, A refurbished set seen heading for Paris-St-Lazare from St Nom la Breteche.
SNCF
The Société nationale des chemins de fer français (; abbreviated as SNCF ; French for "National society of French railroads") is France's national state-owned railway company. Founded in 1938, it operates the country's national rail traffi ...
Class Z 6400 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 were built by Alsthom
Alstom SA is a French multinational rolling stock manufacturer operating worldwide in rail transport markets, active in the fields of passenger transportation, signalling, and locomotives, with products including the AGV, TGV, Eurostar, Avelia ...
/ Carel et Fouché from 1976 to 1979. They are chiefly used in commuter service to the Gare Saint-Lazare
The Gare Saint-Lazare (English: St Lazarus station), officially Paris-Saint-Lazare, is one of the six large mainline railway station termini in Paris, France. It serves train services toward Normandy, northwest of Paris, along the Paris–Le Hav ...
in Paris, serving the northwest Paris suburbs.
Seventy-five of these 4-car units built for use on suburban service in the west of Paris, operating mainly on the Transilien Line L
Transilien Paris-Saint-Lazare is one of the sectors in the Paris Transilien suburban rail network. The trains on this sector depart from Gare Saint-Lazare in central Paris and serve the north and north-west of Île-de-France region with Transilien ...
. The 4-car units are most often used in double-formation as 8-car sets. 43 sets have doors arranged for high platforms, while the remainder are for low platforms.
They are being replaced by the Class Z 50000 units with complete withdrawal expected by 2021.
See also
*CPTM
, owner = São Paulo State Government
, area served = Greater São Paulo, Brazil
, transit_type = Commuter rail
, lines = 5
, line_number =
, st ...
(São Paulo commuter rail) operates a partially-forked version of the Z 6400 called CPTM 5000/5400 series ( pt), manufactured by the Cobrasma–Francorail
Francorail was a grouping of French railway rolling stock manufacturers, formed in the early 1970s and defunct by the late 1980s.
History
The Francorail grouping was formed to combine the individual areas of expertise or production of a number o ...
consortium in the late-1970s for the then-FEPASA – Ferrovia Paulista S/A on what is now CPTM Line 8
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