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#5445· CRH2

China Railway CRH2

🇨🇳 China ·built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries· from 2007· Chinese high-speed train model

🚄 high-speed train electric ✓ in service
10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
  1. 1. CRH2A--京沪普速线: DF4D-0070· CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. 2. CRH2A Hexie EMU: Samson Ng . D201@EAL· CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. 3. CRH2 二等改一等座车: DF4D-0070· CC BY-SA 3.0
  4. 4. 201308 D91 passes Jinhuadong Station: MNXANL· CC BY-SA 4.0
  5. 5. 201405 D93 at Shanghai Hongqiao Station: MNXANL· CC BY-SA 4.0
  6. 6. 201406 D93 and D5664 at Jinhuaxi Station: MNXANL· CC BY-SA 4.0
  7. 7. 201405 D5691 on Qiantang River Bridge South Access Subgrade: MNXANL· CC BY-SA 4.0
  8. 8. 201411 D5692 enters into Jinhua Station: MNXANL· CC BY-SA 4.0
  9. 9. 201510 CRH2B at Huishan Station: MNXANL· CC BY-SA 4.0
  10. 10. 201712 CRH2B-4097 at Shanghai Hongqiao Station: MNXANL· CC BY-SA 4.0
Read about it on Wikipedia ↗
China Railway CRH2, photo 1 of 10
1/10 DF4D-0070· CC BY-SA 3.0

what is it?

The CRH2 Hexie (simplified Chinese: 和谐号; traditional Chinese: 和諧號; pinyin: Héxié Hào; lit. 'Harmony') is one of the high-speed train models in China. The CRH2 is based on the E2-1000 Series Shinkansen design from Japan with the license purchased from a consortium formed of Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Mitsubishi Electric, and Hitachi, and represents the second Shinkansen train model to be exported.

who runs it

China State Railway GroupChina Railway Beijing GroupChina Railway Shanghai GroupChina Railway Jinan GroupChina Railway Xi'an GroupChina Railway Wuhan GroupChina Railway Nanchang GroupChina Railway Zhengzhou GroupChina Railway Taiyuan GroupChina Railway Chengdu GroupChina Railway Guangzhou GroupChina Railway Nanning Group

base stats

  • speed 350 km/htop speed
  • power 9.6 MWpower output
  • built 256made in total

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 19 years ago, in 2007.
  • Top speed is 2.7× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
  • At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 7 minutes.
  • 9.6 MW is about 113 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
  • 201 m long: about 45 cars parked nose to tail.

high-speed train: Built for 200–350 km/h on dedicated lines, like the TGV, ICE or Shinkansen.

spec sheet

built
2007
in service from
2007
status
in service
number built
256
kind
high-speed train
traction
electric
origin
🇨🇳 China
builders
Kawasaki Heavy Industries, CRRC Qingdao Sifang Co., Ltd.
operators
China State Railway Group, China Railway Beijing Group, China Railway Shanghai Group, China Railway Jinan Group, China Railway Xi'an Group, China Railway Wuhan Group, China Railway Nanchang Group, China Railway Zhengzhou Group, China Railway Taiyuan Group, China Railway Chengdu Group, China Railway Guangzhou Group, China Railway Nanning Group
top speed
350 km/h
power
9.6 MW
formation
CRH2A: 8 cars per trainset (4M4T), CRH2B/E: 16 cars per trainset (8M8T), CRH2C: 8 cars per trainset (6M2T)
length
201 m
Dutch name
CRH2

From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.

family

↑ Hexieparent

Sources: Wikidata Q598187, Wikipedia: China Railway CRH2 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.

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