#5849· CRH3
China Railway CRH3
🇨🇳 China ·built by CRRC Changchun Railway Vehicles Co., Ltd.· from 2017· Chinese high-speed train model
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10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. CRH3 20100216: 火车仔· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. CRH3C Hexie EMU: Samson Ng . D201@EAL· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. China Railway CRH3A: N509FZ· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. CRH3 999C at Shenyang Railway Museum: LazyPanda8· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. 201906 CRH3A-5244 at Zhenjiang Station: MNXANL· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 6. 201908 CRH3A as C6680 at CR Shuangliu Airport Station: MNXANL· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 7. 202309 CRH3A-5230 at Chengdudong Station: MNXANL· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 8. China Railways CRH3A-3106 20180426: Changzhensky· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 9. China Railways CRH3A-3106 20180427: Changzhensky· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 10. China Railways CRH3A-5253 20180426: Changzhensky· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The CRH3 Hexie (simplified Chinese: 和谐号; traditional Chinese: 和諧號; pinyin: Héxié Hào; lit. 'Harmony') is a version of the Siemens Velaro high-speed train used in China on the Beijing–Tianjin intercity railway line, Wuhan-Guangzhou Passenger Dedicated Line, Zhengzhou-Xi'an Passenger Dedicated Line and the Shanghai–Nanjing intercity railway. It is capable of service speed of 380 km/h (236 mph) as the very similar Velaro E used in Spain, but, similarly to the Sapsan, it is 300 mm (11.8 in) wider to take advantage of a more generous structure gauge and thus be able to fit in more seats in a 2+3 layout.
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 2.9× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 6 minutes.
- 19.2 MW is about 226 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 75 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 200 m long: about 44 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 9 years (2008–2017).
high-speed train: Built for 200–350 km/h on dedicated lines, like the TGV, ICE or Shinkansen.
spec sheet
- built
- 2017
- in service from
- 2008
- retired
- 2017
- status
- retired
- number built
- —
- kind
- high-speed train
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇨🇳 China
- builders
- CRRC Changchun Railway Vehicles Co., Ltd., Hitachi, Siemens Mobility, CRRC Tangshan Co., Ltd.
- operators
- China State Railway Group
- top speed
- 380 km/h
- power
- 19.2 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- electric system
- Overhead line
- formation
- CRH3A (CNR), CRH3C (Siemens/CNR), CRH380B: 8 cars/trainset (4M4T), CRH3A–A, CRH3F: 4 cars/trainset (2M2T), CRH380BL, CR…
- length
- 200 m
- weight
- 447 t
- Dutch name
- CRH3
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
family
Sources: Wikidata Q856434, Wikipedia: China Railway CRH3 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.