The Z-TER (Z 21500) is a French model of

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 ...

regional

passenger train A passenger train is a train used to transport people along a railroad line. These trains may consist of unpowered passenger railroad cars (also known as coaches or carriages) hauled by one or more locomotives, or may be self-propelled; self pr ...

, manufactured by

Alstom 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 ...

and

Bombardier Transportation Bombardier Transportation was a Canadian-German rolling stock and rail transport manufacturer, headquartered in Berlin, Germany. It was one of the world's largest companies in the rail vehicle and equipment manufacturing and servicing industry ...

, and operated by

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 ...

. They are used on regional links, and can be coupled with another Z-TER. They are derived from the French diesel passenger regional train "X-TER" (X 72500), and is the first regional train to reach 200 km/h. As other regional trains, they are owned by the French regions, and are dispatched as : * 19 "Pays de la Loire" regionListing of all Z-TER
/ref> * 15 "Centre" region * 6 "Aquitaine" region * 17 "Bretagne" region

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High-speed trains of France Passenger trains running at least at 200 km/h in commercial operations Electric multiple units of France Transport express régional 25 kV AC multiple units 1500 V DC multiple units of France {{DEFAULTSORT:SNCF Z-TER_(Z_21500)

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