what is it?
The TSD09 diesel multiple unit is a tilting train developed by Tangshan Locomotive in 2003 and fitted with Cummins diesel engines, Voith hydraulic transmission and Extel Systems Wedel tilting mechanisms. It was built for Sanmao Railway, but due to strategic reasons within the Ministry of Railways, the set never operated commercially and has been permanently stored at Tangshan Locomotive.
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 1.4× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 14 minutes.
- 2.2 MW is about 26 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- 132 m long: about 29 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 358: 7 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
- —
- number built
- 2
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇨🇳 China
- builders
- CRRC Tangshan Co., Ltd.
- operators
- Guangzhou–Maoming Railway
- top speed
- 176 km/h
- power
- 2.2 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- formation
- Mc-M-T-M-Mc
- length
- 132 m
- capacity
- 358 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q10852908, Wikipedia: China Railway TSD09 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.