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Kawasaki Heavy Industries & Nippon Sharyo C751B

🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries· from 2000· class of electric multiple units in Singapore

🚆 multiple unit electric retired
10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
  1. 1. Kawasaki c751 eunos: Calvin Teo· CC BY-SA 2.5
  2. 2. SMRT C751B @ NSL, Bukit Batok 20240908 (54539686479) - cropped: Takeshi Aida from Hong Kong, Hong Kong· CC BY-SA 2.0
  3. 3. C751B-Int-EmergencyExit: mailer_diablo· CC BY-SA 3.0
  4. 4. C751B-Int-Front: mailer_diablo· CC BY-SA 3.0
  5. 5. EW15 Tanjong Pagar MRT Platform A KHI Nippon Sharyo C751B 20201030 143905: ZKang123· CC BY-SA 4.0
  6. 6. EW5 Bedok MRT Platform B KHI Nippon Sharyo C751B 20201024 162954: ZKang123· CC BY-SA 4.0
  7. 7. EW6 Kembangan MRT Platform B KHI Nippon Sharyo C751B 20201024 163348: ZKang123· CC BY-SA 4.0
  8. 8. Kawasaki c751b train 2: No machine-readable author provided. Calvin Teo assumed (based on copyright claims).· CC BY-SA 3.0
  9. 9. Kawasaki C751B: Fanz226· CC BY-SA 4.0
  10. 10. KHI Nippon Sharyo C751B (decomissioned at City Square Mall) 20260603 153732: ZKang123· CC BY-SA 4.0
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what is it?

The Kawasaki Heavy Industries & Nippon Sharyo (KNS) C751B is a class of retired trains that were the third generation of electric multiple unit rolling stock that operated on the North–South and East–West lines of Singapore's Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system from January 2000 to September 2024, manufactured by Kawasaki Heavy Industries & Nippon Sharyo (KNS) under Contract 751B. 21 trainsets of 6 cars each were purchased at S$231 million, and it was the first rolling stock to feature VVVF insulated-gate bipolar transistor traction control system. Kawasaki manufactured 66 cars and Nippon Sharyo manufactured 60 cars respectively with no comparable differences, having been built to agreed specifications.

who runs it

SMRT TrainsSMRT Corporation

base stats

  • speed 90 km/htop speed
  • power 2.2 MWpower output
  • weight 223 tin working order
  • seats 1,920passengers
  • built 126made 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 26 years ago, in 2000.
  • 2.2 MW is about 26 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
  • Weighs about as much as 37 African elephants (~6 t each).
  • 139 m long: about 31 cars parked nose to tail.
  • Seats 1,920: 38 full city buses (~50 seats each).
  • Served for 24 years (2000–2024).

multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.

spec sheet

built
2000
in service from
2000
retired
2024
status
retired
number built
126
kind
Electric multiple unit
traction
electric
origin
🇯🇵 Japan
builders
Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Nippon Sharyo, Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing
designer
GK Industrial Design
operators
SMRT Trains, SMRT Corporation
top speed
90 km/h
power
2.2 MW
gauge
1,435 mm standard gauge
wheel arrangement
2′2′+Bo′Bo′+Bo′Bo′+Bo′Bo′+Bo′Bo′+2′2′
formation
6 per trainset, DT–M1–M2+M2–M1–DT
length
139 m
weight
223 t
capacity
1,920 passengers

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

Sources: Wikidata Q6379762, Wikipedia: Kawasaki Heavy Industries & Nippon Sharyo C751B (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.

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