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New Generation Rollingstock
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by ALSTOM Transportation Germany· from 2017· class of Queensland Rail electric multiple units
10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. NGREMU702: QRtrains· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. NGR766KRA: Pytomelon87· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. New Generation Rollingstock 736 Sunshine Railway Station Bilsen Rd Geebung P1040860: John Robert McPherson· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. New Generation Rollingstock 736 Sunshine Railway Station Bilsen Rd Geebung P1040861: John Robert McPherson· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. New Generation Rollingstock No. 730 to Brisbane Airport, Queensland 01: Kgbo· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 6. New Generation Rollingstock passenger check Sunshine Railway Station Bilsen Rd Geebung P1060006: John Robert McPherson· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 7. New Generation Rollingstock passenger check Sunshine Railway Station Bilsen Rd Geebung P1060023: John Robert McPherson· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 8. New Generation Rollingstock pulls in to Sunshine Railway Station Bilsen Rd Geebung P1060005: John Robert McPherson· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 9. New Generation Rollingstock pulls in to Sunshine Railway Station Bilsen Rd Geebung P1060009: John Robert McPherson· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 10. New Generation Rollingstock pulls in to Sunshine Railway Station Bilsen Rd Geebung P1060022: John Robert McPherson· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The New Generation Rollingstock (NGR) is a class of electric multiple unit manufactured by Bombardier Transportation in India for Queensland Rail between January 2014 and December 2019. They are the largest fleet of electric multiple units to be used in Queensland at 75 6-car sets.
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 9 years ago, in 2017.
- Top speed is 1.1× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- 146 m long: about 32 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 510: 10 full city buses (~50 seats each).
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 2017
- in service from
- 2017
- status
- in service
- number built
- 75
- kind
- Electric multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- ALSTOM Transportation Germany
- operators
- Queensland Rail
- top speed
- 140 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- electric system
- (nominal) from overhead catenary
- wheel arrangement
- Bo′Bo′+2′2′+Bo′Bo′+Bo′Bo′+2′2′+Bo′Bo′
- formation
- 6-car sets
- length
- 146 m
- capacity
- 510 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q19876175, Wikipedia: New Generation Rollingstock (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.