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KTM Class 61
🇲🇾 Malaysia ·built by CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotive Co., Ltd.· from 2021· Malaysian train class
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. KTM class 61: Chuanzheng1901· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. KTM Class 61 at Bahau: Fancyrr· CC BY 4.0
what is it?
The KTM Class 61 is a diesel multiple unit operated by Keretapi Tanah Melayu for KTM Intercity services on non electrified sections of the KTM West Coast railway line and the KTM East Coast railway line.
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 5 years ago, in 2021.
- Top speed is 1.1× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Weighs about as much as 29 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 93.5 m long: about 21 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 218: 4 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
- 2021
- in service from
- 2021
- status
- in service
- number built
- 52
- kind
- Diesel multiple unit
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇲🇾 Malaysia
- builders
- CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotive Co., Ltd.
- operators
- Keretapi Tanah Melayu
- top speed
- 140 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,000 mm metre gauge
- formation
- 4 per trainset, D1–M1–M2–D2
- length
- 93.5 m
- weight
- 177 t
- capacity
- 218 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q104853661, Wikipedia: KTM Class 61 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.