#5956
Kawasaki Heavy Industries & CRRC Qingdao Sifang T251
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing· from 2020· class of electric multiple units in Singapore
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4 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. (SGP-Singapore) Thomson-East Coast MRT Line Kawasaki-CRRC Qingdao Sifang CT251 2027 @ Katong Park 2024-07-29: S5A-0043· CC BY 4.0
- 2. Das Innere des Kawasaki Heavy Industries & CRRC Qingdao Sifang T251.: Expensivecheese· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. T251 train at Mandai Depot: Sgtrains· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. T251 train leaving Mandai Depot: Sgtrains· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Kawasaki Heavy Industries & CRRC Qingdao Sifang T251 is the first generation electric multiple unit rolling stock in operation on the Thomson–East Coast line of Singapore's Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system, manufactured by a consortium of Kawasaki Heavy Industries and CRRC Qingdao Sifang (formerly CSR Qingdao Sifang) under Contract Turnkey 251. 91 four-car medium-capacity trainsets were purchased by LTA for the Thomson-East Coast line in 2014 and the first set was delivered on 25 May 2018. Seven additional trains were scheduled to be procured for the Johor Bahru–Singapore Rapid Transit System that will connect Malaysia to Singapore, as the Malaysian and Singaporean governments agreed to largely identical technical specifications for both lines.
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 6 years ago, in 2020.
- 1.4 MW is about 17 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 7 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 92.9 m long: about 21 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 1,280: 26 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
- 2020
- in service from
- 2020
- status
- in service
- number built
- 364
- kind
- Electric multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing, CRRC Qingdao Sifang Co., Ltd.
- operators
- SMRT Trains, SMRT Corporation
- top speed
- 100 km/h
- power
- 1.4 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Bo′Bo′+Bo′Bo′+2′2′+Bo′Bo′
- formation
- 4 per trainset, DM1–M–T–DM2
- length
- 92.9 m
- weight
- 39.8 t
- capacity
- 1,280 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q17051139, Wikipedia: Kawasaki Heavy Industries & CRRC Qingdao Sifang T251 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.