VR Commuter Rail - Rolling Stock

Rolling Stock

Electric multiple units:

  • Sm1, 50 units delivered in 1969–1973 (Valmet/Strömberg)
  • Sm2, 50 units delivered in 1975–1981 (Valmet/Strömberg)
  • Sm4, 30 units delivered in 1999–2005 (Fiat Ferroviaria/CAF/Alstom)
  • Sm5, 9 units delivered in 2008–2011 (Stadler, model FLIRT). These trains are run by VR but owned by Pääkaupunkiseudun Junakalusto Oy. The first Sm5 unit started commercial operations in November 2009. A total of 42 units have been ordered and the series will replace aging Sm1-units.
  • Sr1 (NEVZ) or Sr2 (SLM/ABB) locomotives and Eil/Eilf commuter traffic cars, 57 cars delivered in 1982–87 (so-called "red cars").

Commuter traffic was the last commercial traffic with wooden-bodied cars on Finnish railways. They were retired in the late 1980s when the Eil cars replaced them.

Rolling stock of the Helsinki commuter rail services
Sm5 EMU at Riihimäki on a test run in February 2009 prior to entering commercial service.
Sm4 EMU at Pasila
Sm2 EMU from the 1970s between Pasila and Helsinki in old colors (June 2001)
Eil class commuter cars at Helsinki Central railway station

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