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New South Wales A and B sets
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Downer Rail· from 2011· classes of electric multiple unit operating in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. B set departing Panania 20180919 01 (Nimed): Gareth Edwards· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. Double image of A set and B set Waratahs: Sydney Trains A Set at Ashfield (cropped).jpg : Thebusofdoom File:Waratah B set B9 - 51869644908 (2).jpg : your_local_bus_driver derivative work: MrActiniuM· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The A and B sets, also referred to as the Waratah trains, are classes of double-decker electric multiple units (EMU) that operate on the Sydney Trains network in New South Wales, Australia. Based on the earlier M sets, the Waratahs were manufactured by a joint consortium between CRRC, Downer Rail and Hitachi, with initial construction taking place overseas in Changchun before final assembly at Downer Rail's Cardiff Locomotive Workshops. The sets were named after the Waratah flower, which is the state's floral emblem.
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 15 years ago, in 2011.
- Top speed is 1.1× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- 2.9 MW is about 34 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 68 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 163 m long: about 36 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 894: 18 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
- 2011
- in service from
- 2011
- status
- in service
- number built
- 791
- kind
- Electric multiple units
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Downer Rail, CRRC Changchun Railway Vehicles Co., Ltd., Hitachi Rail
- operators
- Sydney Trains
- top speed
- 143 km/h
- power
- 2.9 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- electric system
- (nominal) from overhead catenary
- formation
- 119 8 car sets, D–N–N–T–T–N–N–D
- length
- 163 m
- weight
- 407 t
- capacity
- 894 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5122977, Wikipedia: New South Wales A and B sets (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.