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China Railway NZJ1
🇨🇳 China ·built by CRRC Qishuyan Co., Ltd.· from 1999· diesel multiple unit of China
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3 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. NZJ1 DMU and DF11 at Harbin Railway Station (July 2007): xue siyang (df45086)· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. China Railway NZJ1 at Qiqihar Railway Station: funcn· CC BY 3.0
- 3. NZJ1 DMU at Harbin Railway Station 20070708 (retouched): xue siyang (df45086)· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The NZJ1 "Xin Shuguang" (New Dawn) is one of the higher-speed DMU models of China Railway. It is a push-pull, double-deck trainset with a "two power cars and nine trailer cars" power-concentrated configuration. It was jointly developed by CRRC Qishuyan, CRRC Nanjing Puzhen, and China Railway Shanghai Group and successfully completed in 1999.
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 27 years ago, in 1999.
- Top speed is 1.5× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 12 minutes.
- 2.8 MW is about 32 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 117 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 281 m long: about 62 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 1,140: 23 full city buses (~50 seats each).
- Served for 11 years (1999–2010).
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1999
- in service from
- 1999
- retired
- 2010
- status
- retired
- number built
- 1
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇨🇳 China
- builders
- CRRC Qishuyan Co., Ltd.
- operators
- Ministry of Railways of the People's Republic of China, China State Railway Group
- top speed
- 199 km/h
- power
- 2.8 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- formation
- 2M9T
- length
- 281 m
- weight
- 702 t
- capacity
- 1,140 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q11082867, Wikipedia: China Railway NZJ1 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.