#5101
China Railway NZJ
🇨🇳 China ·built by CRRC Tangshan Co., Ltd.· from 1998· diesel multiple unit of China
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Stored double decker train NZJ at Nanchang: 跨越1983· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The NZJ "Lushan", also registered as the NZJ1 are a class of diesel multiple unit (DMU) of China Railway. These sets were built by Tangshan Locomotive in a 2M2T layout of four cars with Cummins diesel engines and Siemens electrical equipment. Three sets were built in total between 1998 and 2000, with two operated by Nanchang Railway Bureau and one by Kunming Railway Bureau.
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 28 years ago, in 1998.
- Weighs about as much as 3 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 105 m long: about 23 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 12 years (1998–2010).
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1998
- in service from
- 1998
- retired
- 2010
- status
- retired
- number built
- 6
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇨🇳 China
- builders
- CRRC Tangshan Co., Ltd.
- operators
- China State Railway Group, China Railway Nanchang Group
- top speed
- 120 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- formation
- Mc-T-T-Mc
- length
- 105 m
- weight
- 17 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q10851897, Wikipedia: China Railway NZJ (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.