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Regina (train)
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Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
model of electric multiple unit
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 of the carriages...
passenger train, manufactured by Bombardier Transportation
Bombardier Transportation
Bombardier Transportation is the rail equipment division of the Canadian firm, Bombardier Inc. Bombardier Transportation is one of the world's largest companies in the rail-equipment manufacturing and servicing industry. Its headquarters are in Berlin, Germany....
(formerly ADtranz
Adtranz
ABB Daimler-Benz Transportation , commonly known under its brand Adtranz, was a multi-national rail transport equipment manufacturer with facilities concentrated in Europe and the USA....
). It is used by the national passenger railway SJ
SJ AB
SJ is a government-owned passenger train operator in Sweden. SJ was created in 2000, out of the public transport division of Statens Järnvägar, when the former government agency was divided into six separate government-owned limited companies.-Overview:SJ's operations fall broadly into subsidised...
along with numerous regional and private operators, in variants designated X50, X51, X52, X53, X54 and X55, and in two- and three-carriage models. The Regina is wider than other Swedish trains; at 3450 mm, it allows five-across seating, increasing passenger capacity by 25%. The car body is built of stainless steel
Stainless steel
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, with only bolsters and coupler pockets made of mild steel. The length is 54–80 m, and the capacity 165-294 seats. A variant of the Regina is used in China
China
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as the CRH1
China Railways CRH1
The CRH1 EMU is a Chinese high-speed train based on Bombardier technology and built by a Chinese-Canadian joint venture between Bombardier and Sifang at Bombardier Sifang Power Transportation factory in Qingdao, Shandong Province, People's Republic of China...
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Top speeds of various models range from 180 km/h to 200 km/h (112 mph to 125 mph). As part of the Gröna tåget (‘the green train’) project, a modified Regina set the Swedish rail-speed record of 303 km/h (188 mph) on 14 September 2008; the goal is to reach 250 km/h (155 mph) in regular service.
The existing Regina units are short trains built for local and regional service, but in late 2007 it was announced that SJ were ordering twenty units furnished for inter-city service
InterCity
InterCity is the classification applied to certain long-distance passenger train services in Europe...
. These trains, designated X55, will be used on the routes connecting Stockholm with Värmland and Dalarna, allowing the displaced X 2000
X 2000
X 2000 is the brand name of Sweden's tilting 200 km/h high-speed train class X2, which was constructed by Kalmar Verkstad in Kalmar, Sweden and operated by SJ. It was launched in 1990 as a first-class only train with a meal included in the ticket price, and free use of the train's fax machine...
units to be used instead to lengthen the busy trains running to Göteborg, Malmö, and Sundsvall. These units will be four-carriage trains with a first-class section and an on-board bistro; they are to be delivered between April and August of 2010, with an option for another 20 units.