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New South Wales Endeavour railcar
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by ABB Group· from 1994· class of diesel multiple unit operated by NSW TrainLink
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10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Endeavour railcar at Newcastle railway station, NSW: Abesty· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. Endeavour Railcar - 2851, 2801: Hugh Llewelyn· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 3. CityRail-Endeavour-2803: Jason Antony Alexanderino· CC BY 2.5
- 4. Endeavour railcar cityrail: Abesty· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 5. Endeavour railcars 2801 and 2851 (30621845427): Hugh Llewelyn from Keynsham, UK· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 6. Refurbished Endeavour Maitland (cropped): Gareth Edwards· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 7. Cityrail endeavour external speaker: Abesty· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 8. Cityrail endeavour railcar at kiama: Abesty· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 9. CityRail Endeavour Railcar: Abesty· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 10. Cityrail Endeavour Train departing Mittagong Station, 2000: MDRX· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Endeavour railcars are a type of diesel multiple units (DMU) operated by Sydney Trains on intercity passenger rail services in New South Wales, Australia on the Hunter, Blue Mountains (to Bathurst), Southern Highlands and South Coast (to Bomaderry) lines. They are mechanically identical to the Xplorers, but are fitted out for shorter travel distances. All 30 carriages were built by ABB's Dandenong rolling stock factory.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 32 years ago, in 1994.
- Top speed is 1.2× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 15 minutes.
- 383 kW is about 5 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 9 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 50.5 m long: about 11 cars parked nose to tail.
- Still in service after 32 years.
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1994
- in service from
- 1994
- status
- in service
- number built
- 30
- kind
- Diesel multiple unit
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- ABB Group
- operators
- Sydney Trains
- top speed
- 160 km/h
- power
- 383 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- formation
- 2-car sets
- length
- 50.5 m
- weight
- 56.6 t
- capacity
- 95 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5122979, Wikipedia: New South Wales Endeavour railcar (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.