Kawasaki Heavy Industries & CRRC Qingdao Sifang C151C

what is it?

The Kawasaki Heavy Industries & CRRC Qingdao Sifang C151C is a class of trains that are the sixth generation electric multiple unit rolling stock in operation on the existing North–South (NSL) and East–West (EWL) lines of Singapore's Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system, manufactured by a consortium of Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) and CRRC Qingdao Sifang under Contract 151C. Twelve trains were purchased. They were delivered between 2017 and 2019, and were tested before the full service in 2019. The first was delivered on 27 October 2017.

who runs it

SMRT Trains

base stats

• speed 90 km/htop speed
• power 2.2 MWpower output
• seats 1,920passengers
• built 72made 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 8 years ago, in 2018.
• 🚗2.2 MW is about 26 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
• 📏139 m long: about 31 cars parked nose to tail.
• 🧍Seats 1,920: 38 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

2018

in service from

2018

status

in service

number built

72

kind

Electric multiple unit

traction

electric

origin

🇯🇵 Japan

builders

Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing, CRRC Qingdao Sifang Co., Ltd.

operators

SMRT Trains

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

capacity

1,920 passengers

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