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Transperth A-series train
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by ABB Group· from 1990· type of Transperth train
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1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Transperth Trains A-Set 209 Midland Line 2 car set (5680733149): Hugh Llewelyn· CC BY-SA 2.0
what is it?
The A-series trains are a class of electric multiple unit built by Walkers Limited in Maryborough, Queensland for Transperth between 1991 and 1999. When introduced in 1991, the A-series trains became the first electric passenger trains to operate in Western Australia and until 2004, were the only type of train in use on the Perth suburban rail network.
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 36 years ago, in 1990.
- 1.2 MW is about 14 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 16 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 48.4 m long: about 11 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 164: 3 full city buses (~50 seats each).
- Still in service after 36 years.
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1990
- in service from
- 1990
- status
- in service
- number built
- 96
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- ABB Group, Adtranz, Walkers Limited
- operators
- Perth trains network, Transperth Train Operations
- top speed
- 120 km/h
- power
- 1.2 MW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- electric system
- (nominal) from overhead catenary
- wheel arrangement
- Bo′Bo′+Bo′2′
- formation
- 2-car sets
- length
- 48.4 m
- weight
- 94 t
- capacity
- 164 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7834812, Wikipedia: Transperth A-series train (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.