Railjet

The Railjet is a new high speed train of the Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB), which was introduced with the timetable change of 2008–2009 and operates at speeds of up to 200 km/h (124 mph), with a planned increase to 230 km/h (143 mph) by 2013.

ÖBB has opted for locomotive-hauled push-pull high-speed trains, rather than Electrical Multiple Unit (EMU) (such as ICE 3 or Shinkansen designs). A Railjet train set consists of seven individual coaches that are permanently coupled with airtight between-coach interconnections but with normal screw couplings on the outer ends of the set of 7 coaches. This design allows them to be hauled by existing conventional locomotives, and for this role the ÖBB chose locomotives from their large fleet of Taurus locomotives (a variant of which, the ÖBB Class 1216 or Taurus 3, holds the current world speed record for an electric locomotive at 357 km/h). The coach furthest from the locomotive acts as a control car.