10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. TRA EMU3000 image: 臺灣鐵路管理局· Attribution
- 2. TRA EMU3011 trial run between Shanjia-Yingge 20210819: jason199567· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. EMU3000城際列車上船畫面 03: 臺灣鐵路管理局· Attribution
- 4. 20211226臺鐵EMU3000型電聯車首航儀式: 臺灣鐵路管理局· Attribution
- 5. EMU3000 Series EMU: Samson Ng . D201@EAL· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 6. EMU3000城際列車上船畫面 01: 臺灣鐵路管理局· Attribution
- 7. EMU3000城際列車上船畫面 02: 臺灣鐵路管理局· Attribution
- 8. EMU3000特仕版圖裝: 臺灣鐵路管理局· Attribution
- 9. 臺鐵EMU3000騰雲座艙標誌: 臺灣鐵路管理局· Attribution
- 10. 臺鐵新車交車進度超前 車輛汰換過程順利 文資保存車輛陸續出廠 新聞稿照片 補充資料-4月27日日本山口縣下松市EMU3000遊行 頁面 1 影像 0001: 臺灣鐵路公司· Attribution
what is it?
The EMU3000 series is a series of electric multiple unit trains operated by the Taiwan Railway Corporation (TR). The trains are built by Hitachi Rail as inter-city trains and entered passenger service on 29 December 2021.
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 1.2× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- 4.6 MW is about 54 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 91 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 246 m long: about 55 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 538: 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
- 2021
- in service from
- 2021
- retired
- 2021
- status
- retired
- number built
- 600
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- Hitachi
- operators
- Taiwan railway, Taiwan Railways Administration
- top speed
- 150 km/h
- power
- 4.6 MW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- electric system
- (nominal) from overhead catenary
- formation
- 12 cars per trainset
- length
- 246 m
- weight
- 545 t
- capacity
- 538 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q65054413, Wikipedia: EMU3000 series (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.