The ALe 724 are a class of EMUs of the Italian Ferrovie dello Stato, projected for suburban and regional services.

In 1978 the Ferrovie dello Stato received a series of prototype-EMUs, the so-called "Treni GAI", that had for the first time a chopper technology instead of the classical electric equipment.

[1] As the tests of the "treni GAI" were positive, in May 1979 the FS ordered a series of EMUs derived from them.

[2] The lombard regional railway company FNM had already ordered in 1978 some similar railcars, numbered E.750.

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