The Treno Servizio Regionale (TSR) are a series of
double-decker EMUs 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 oper ...
for the
commuter services around
Milan
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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
disabled people (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
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and
Firema
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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 oper ...
) 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
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FNM electric railcars and multiple units
Double-decker EMUs
AnsaldoBreda multiple units
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