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The M7 cars are a series of bilevel rail cars of the National Railway Company of Belgium (SNCB). Developed from the M6 cars they are built by Bombardier Transportation and Alstom. The first car was delivered in September 2018. The M7 coaches are mainly intended as intercity stock, they will completely replace the M4 and partly replace the M5.
They were Belgium's first electric units. [4] The AM35 EMU's were withdrawn from passenger service between 1959 and 1962 due to the heavy wear and tear they inflicted on the rails; several power cars were refurbished into mail trains for the Belgian postal service in 1967–1968. These mail trains were withdrawn in 1988.
NMBS/SNCB is an autonomous government company, formed in 1926 as successor to the Belgian State Railways.From 1942 to 1944, amid Nazi Germany's occupation of Belgium, the company was paid 51 million Belgian francs by the Nazi Germany to send 28 trains carrying 25,843 Jews and Roma people to Auschwitz where only 1,195 survived. [2]
NMBS/SNCB Class 41 DMUs are diesel multiple-unit trains operated by the National Railway Company of Belgium (NMBS/SNCB). They are the standard train for Belgian internal workings which cannot be worked by EMUs. They work under the 25 kV electrification in the South of Belgium as well as on the non-electrified lines in the North.
Passenger rail services in Belgium are operated by NMBS/SNCB. The Belgian rail network is organised into three main domestic passenger train categories on the main lines, these are: Intercity (IC) trains–An express, limited-stop service, often calling only at major railway stations; in some cases it has stops at all stations along part of the ...
SNCB Type 93 – 2-6-0T (pr. T9³) SNCB Type 98 – 0-10-0T; No.2096; See also. Trains portal; Belgium portal; History of rail transport in Belgium; Rail transport in ...
The SNCB M6 double decker coaches were also used with the class 13; in some cases the trains used two control cars, with a class 13 locomotive in the middle, a train formation nicknamed dromadaire (camel). [13] Class 18 locos took most of the passenger duties of Class 13 locomotives; replacing more of them in freight service.
The carriages were built by Bombardier and BN [citation needed] in Bruges, Belgium between 1995 and 1997. [1] Three types were constructed: 36 of an "A type" with 60 first class seats in [2+1] configuration, 106 of a "B type" with 80 second class seats in [2+2] formation, and 21 "BDx type" control cars with 58 second class seats and incorporating a driving cab.