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Alstom Metropolis C751C
🇸🇬 Singapore ·built by Alstom· from 2015· class of electric multiple units in Singapore
7 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Alstom Metropolis C751C - DRMD: HagenPapa2014· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. NE10 Potong Pasir MRT Platform B Alstom Metropolis C751C 20220330 080155: ZKang123· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. NE10 Potong Pasir MRT Platform B Alstom Metropolis C751C 20220330 080236: ZKang123· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. NEL Alstom Metropolis C751C 20201017 152143: ZKang123· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. NEL Alstom Metropolis C751C 20201017 152204: ZKang123· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 6. NEL Alstom Metropolis C751C 20201017 152206: ZKang123· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 7. The C751C under construction in Shanghai- 2014-06-15 11-50: User:JoshuaTham· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The Alstom Metropolis C751C is the second generation of communication-based train control (CBTC) electric multiple unit rolling stock in operation on the North East Line of Singapore's Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system. Eighteen 6-car train sets were manufactured by Shanghai Alstom Transport Co Ltd (joint venture of Alstom and Shanghai Electric), Deliveries began in July 2014, and all trainsets were delivered by 2015.
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 11 years ago, in 2015.
- 2.4 MW is about 28 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- 139 m long: about 31 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 1,920: 38 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
- 2015
- in service from
- 2015
- status
- in service
- number built
- 108
- kind
- Electric multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇸🇬 Singapore
- builders
- Alstom, Shanghai Electric
- operators
- SBS Transit
- top speed
- 100 km/h
- power
- 2.4 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- electric system
- overhead catenary
- wheel arrangement
- 2′2′+Bo′Bo′+Bo′Bo′+Bo′Bo′+Bo′Bo′+2′2′
- formation
- 6 per trainset, DT–Mp–Mi+Mi–Mp–DT
- length
- 139 m
- capacity
- 1,920 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q4735851, Wikipedia: Alstom Metropolis C751C (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.