The Treno Servizio Regionale (TSR) are a series of
double-decker EMUs
Emus may refer to:
* Emu
The emu () (''Dromaius novaehollandiae'') is the second-tallest living bird after its ratite relative the ostrich. It is endemic to Australia where it is the largest native bird and the only extant member of the g ...
used by the Lombard railway company
Trenord
Trenord is a railway company which is responsible for the operation of regional passenger trains in Lombardy. The company was established by the two main railway companies in Lombardy, Trenitalia and Ferrovie Nord Milano (FNM), to manage train ope ...
for the
commuter services around
Milan
Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...
, 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
disabled people
Disability is the experience of any condition that makes it more difficult for a person to do certain activities or have equitable access within a given society. Disabilities may be cognitive, developmental, intellectual, mental, physical, se ...
(MCH), and some of them have neither (M).
″MCH″-railcars were numbered by
LeNord as E.711, ″M″-ones as E.710. In complex were built 208 MCH and 252 M, that can be merged forming trains from 3 (MCH + M + MCH) to 6 cars (MCH + M + M + M + M + MCH).
History
The TSR were conceived by
AnsaldoBreda
Hitachi Rail Italy S.p.A. is a multinational rolling stock manufacturer company based in Pistoia, Italy. Formerly AnsaldoBreda S.p.A., a subsidiary of state-owned Finmeccanica, the company was sold in 2015 to Hitachi Rail of Japan. After the ...
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
Trenord
Trenord is a railway company which is responsible for the operation of regional passenger trains in Lombardy. The company was established by the two main railway companies in Lombardy, Trenitalia and Ferrovie Nord Milano (FNM), to manage train ope ...
) 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.
External links
{{FS EMUs and DMUs, collapsed
FNM electric railcars and multiple units
Double-decker EMUs
AnsaldoBreda multiple units
3000 V DC multiple units