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X'Trapolis Mega
🇿🇦 South Africa ·built by Gibela· from 2017· South African Electric Multiple Unit class
what is it?
The X'Trapolis Mega is an electric multiple unit (EMU), and part of the X'Trapolis family. It is built in South Africa by Gibela, a joint venture between French company Alstom and South African company Ubumbano Rail, for the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA). The Mega operates as part of daily Metrorail commuter service in major metropolitan areas across South Africa.
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 9 years ago, in 2017.
- Top speed is 1.2× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 15 minutes.
- 132 m long: about 29 cars parked nose to tail.
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 2017
- in service from
- 2017
- status
- in service
- number built
- 268
- kind
- Electric multiple unit (EMU)
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇿🇦 South Africa
- builders
- Gibela, Alstom
- operators
- Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa
- top speed
- 160 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- formation
- 6 cars per EMU
- length
- 132 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q30687942, Wikipedia: X'Trapolis Mega (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.