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High Capacity Metro Train
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Downer Rail· from 2020· electric trains used in Melbourne, Australia
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8 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. 319A2344: Steve Nguyen Transport· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. HCMT set 9033 Westall to West Footscray service via Metro Tunnel at Footscray railway station Platform 2 (28 January 2026): PEPSI697· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. High Capacity Metro Train arriving at Hughesdale station — July 2022: Alison Newman· CC0
- 4. High Capacity Metro Train arriving at Oakleigh station — July 2022: Alison Newman· CC0
- 5. High Capacity Metro Train at West Footscray station - November 2025: Alison Newman· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 6. High Capacity Metro Train carriage — June 2022: Alison Newman· CC0
- 7. High Capacity Metro Train on Metro Tunnel opening day at Malvern station: Alison Newman· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 8. High Capacity Metro Train: LachlanTansey· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The High Capacity Metro Train (HCMT) is a type of electric multiple unit (EMU) train for use by Metro Trains Melbourne on the Melbourne rail network. The first train set entered service on 27 December 2020 and is the exclusive rolling stock used in the Metro Tunnel for passenger services. The HCMTs carry around 1,400 passengers in seven carriages, running on Melbourne's 1,500 V DC overhead catenary system, and are currently the most advanced trains in Metro Trains's fleet.
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 6 years ago, in 2020.
- Weighs about as much as 53 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 160 m long: about 36 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 1,380: 28 full city buses (~50 seats each).
metro: Urban rapid transit: frequent, high-capacity trains, often underground.
spec sheet
- built
- 2020
- in service from
- 2020
- status
- in service
- number built
- 490
- kind
- Electric multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Downer Rail, CRRC Changchun Railway Vehicles Co., Ltd., Plenary Group
- operators
- Metro Trains Melbourne
- top speed
- 130 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,600 mm Irish broad gauge
- electric system
- (nominal) from overhead catenary
- formation
- 7-car sets, Tc–DMp–Mp1–DT–Mp2–DMp–Tc
- length
- 160 m
- weight
- 317 t
- capacity
- 1,380 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q28224263, Wikipedia: High Capacity Metro Train (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.