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Kawasaki Heavy Industries C151
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries· from 1987· class of electric multiple units in Singapore
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10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Kawasaki C151 refurbished: Img by Calvin Teo· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. C151AngMoKio: mailer_diablo· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3. C151-motorcar-center: mailer_diablo· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 4. Kawasaki C151 1006: Img by Calvin Teo· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 5. SMRT C151 @ EWL, Pioneer (Jurong West, Block 986) 20240908 (54539740413): Takeshi Aida from Hong Kong, Hong Kong· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 6. (SGP-Singapore) East-West MRT Line Kawasaki Heavy Industries C151 093-094 @ Boon Lay 2024-12-27: S5A-0043· CC BY 4.0
- 7. C151 and R151 train at Tuas Depot: R151trains· CC0
- 8. C151 side view: No machine-readable author provided. Terence assumed (based on copyright claims).· CC BY 2.5
- 9. C151 train at Tuas Depot 2: R151trains· CC0
- 10. C151-JE-cent: mailer_diablo· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) C151 is a class of retired trains that were the first generation of electric multiple unit (EMU) rolling stock that operated on the North–South and East–West lines of Singapore's Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system, manufactured by a consortium led by Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) under Contract 151. They were first introduced in 1987 and retired in 2025, making them the oldest trains operated on the network. Sixty-six trainsets consisting of six cars each and a single money train set consisting of four cars were contracted in 1984.
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 39 years ago, in 1987.
- 2.3 MW is about 27 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 4 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 38 years (1987–2025).
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1987
- in service from
- 1987
- retired
- 2025
- status
- retired
- number built
- 396
- kind
- Electric multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Kinki Sharyo, Nippon Sharyo, Japan Transport Engineering Company, Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing
- operators
- SMRT Trains, SMRT Corporation
- top speed
- 90 km/h
- power
- 2.3 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2′2′+Bo′Bo′+Bo′Bo′+Bo′Bo′+Bo′Bo′+2′2′
- formation
- 6 cars per trainset, DT–M1–M2+M2–M1–DT , DT+M2–M1–DT (Money Train)
- length
- 139 m
- weight
- 21.7 t
- capacity
- 1,920 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q6135650, Wikipedia: Kawasaki Heavy Industries C151 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.