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CRRC ZEMU02
🇦🇹 Austria ·built by CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotive Co., Ltd.· from 2025· double-decker train
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. WESTbahn 4100 Wels b: Dieter Zoubek· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. 4100 003 in Sb: Yuezhi Huang· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The CRRC ZEMU02, also known as CRRC DDEMU2 or Westbahn Class 4100 “Panda”, is a high-speed bi-level electric multiple unit (EMU) built by CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotive for Austrian railway company Westbahn. It is designed to meet the TSI standards of the European Union (EU) and is configured as 6-car set. It is also equipped with a dual AC drive system and multiple signaling systems to meet the transportation needs of operating in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Slovakia and Hungary.
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 1 years ago, in 2025.
- 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.
- Weighs about as much as 69 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 158 m long: about 35 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 536: 11 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
- 2025
- in service from
- 2025
- number built
- 4
- kind
- Electric multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇦🇹 Austria
- builders
- CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotive Co., Ltd.
- operators
- WESTbahn
- top speed
- 200 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- electric system
- Overhead line, *
- wheel arrangement
- Bo′Bo′+2′2′+2′2′+2′2′+2′2′+Bo′Bo′
- formation
- 6 cars per set
- length
- 158 m
- weight
- 416 t
- capacity
- 536 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q124055471, Wikipedia: CRRC ZEMU02 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.