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In service:
from 2001
Gauge:
Standard gauge (1'435 mm)
Length over buffers (mm):
26'400 mm
Tare weight (t):
49 t
Maximum speed (km/h):
160 km/h
Total number of seats (1st class seats / 2nd class seats / 3rd class seats / folding seats):
78x 2nd class seats

2001

The X2 trains, which handle a large part of SJ's long-distance traffic, are used heavily, and when trains need to be taken out of service, this means disruption. In order to relieve the high-speed trains, SJ decided in 2001 to rebuild passenger cars and Rc locomotives as reserve trains for X2 units. A total of 27 eighties carriages were rebuilt so that you got four sets of trains. The wagons received the letters A11, B11 and RB11. The wagons received a new color scheme in dark blue and an interior with the same comfort as the X2. The trains have (unofficially) gone by the names "X2000R", "Blue X" and "IC11" and are allowed to go up to 160 km/h, i.e. slower than X2 units. There were plans to rebuild the carriages for a speed of 180 km/h, but this proved too expensive.

The 13x units from this series are converted from B7 passenger coaches.

The idea of ​​reserve trains was abandoned after a few years and the carriages are used in regular traffic, including on the Stockholm-Mora route.
 

Sources: https://www.jarnvag.net/vagnguide/b11

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