There were some variations, with some having a cargo area, needed in the remote parts of northern Sweden where mail and parcels are often transported by passenger buses and trains.

Most of the Y1s in Sweden were in the 2000s owned by regional transport authorities, rather than by SJ AB, where they have been replaced by Bombardier Itino trains.

Classified as series 7122 by Croatian Railways, second-hand examples began arriving from Sweden in 1996.

Some units are also coloured in silver livery, with a blue stripe on the bottom and modern HŽPP logo above.

- 2021. and are now painted in the blue-red "swoosh" livery similar to that of Srbija Voz Stadler FLIRT EMU units.

Norges Statsbaner operated three units on the Bratsberg Line, between Porsgrunn and Notodden, from 2000 until August 2015.

A total of four former SJ Y1 railcars (nos 1281, 1304, 1306, 1313) were sold to Kosovo Railways in 2007 [1] for service on local trains between Pristina and Pejë.

Five Y1 type railcars (from the Y1R variant refurbished with Volvo engines and fully autoamic transmissions) were sold to the State Railways Administration of Uruguay.