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China Railway KDZ1
🇨🇳 China ·built by CRRC Changchun Railway Vehicles Co., Ltd.· first generation EMU of China
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Yunnan Railway Museum - rolling stock - P1340761: User:Vmenkov· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The KDZ1 is the first electrical multiple unit built in China. It is an experimental alternating current electrical multiple unit, developed by Changchun Railway Vehicles, CRRC Zhuzhou Institute and China Academy of Railway Sciences in 1978 and completed in 1988, though it never saw passenger service, with it being stored after it completed its initial tests.
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
- Top speed is 1.1× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- 25.5 m long: about 6 cars parked nose to tail.
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- —
- number built
- 1
- kind
- DYZ1
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇨🇳 China
- builders
- CRRC Changchun Railway Vehicles Co., Ltd.
- designer
- Changchun Railway Vehicles, CRRC Zhuzhou Institute, China Academy of Railway Sciences
- operators
- China State Railway Group
- top speed
- 140 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- formation
- Tc-M-M-Tc
- length
- 25.5 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q10851243, Wikipedia: China Railway KDZ1 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.