X15p is a class of
narrow gauge
A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge (distance between the rails) narrower than . Most narrow-gauge railways are between and .
Since narrow-gauge railways are usually built with Minimum railw ...
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 number o ...
s to be operated by
SL on the
Roslag Railway. 22 3-car sets will be delivered from 2020 to increase capacity on the network; the first of which were delivered in autumn 2020. Testing of the trains has been going on since then and the first train entered service on 31 October 2023. The name follows Swedish tradition for rail vehicle names, in which ''X'' means electric multiple unit, and the last ''p'' means 891 mm gauge.
A new
depot
Depot may refer to:
Places
* Depot, Poland, a village
* Depot Glacier (disambiguation)
* Depot Island (disambiguation)
* Depot Nunatak
* Depot Peak
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* Maxwell Street Depot, a restaurant in Chicago, United States
* Of ...
, ''Vallentunadepån'', has been constructed near
Molnby, about 3,5 kilometers north of
Vallentuna
Vallentuna is the seat of Vallentuna Municipality in Stockholm County, Sweden, with 33,219 inhabitants in 2018. Vallentuna's cultural landscape is well preserved, and human habitation in the area has been traced back as far as the Stone Age. Arche ...
, in order to house the new trains. The depot contains space for all of the 22 new trains, with the ability to conduct maintenance on them as well. The older
X10p rolling stock will still be housed at the depot in
Mörby.
References
External links
SL köper in nya tåg till Roslagsbanan
{{Swedish Rolling Stock
Stadler Rail multiple units
X15p
Rail transport in Stockholm
1500 V DC multiple units
Train-related introductions in 2017