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Kawasaki Heavy Industries & CSR Qingdao Sifang C151A

🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing· from 2011· class of electric multiple units in Singapore

🚆 multiple unit electric ✓ in service
10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
  1. 1. C151a: Willis Chong .· CC BY 3.0
  2. 2. (SGP-Singapore) East-West MRT Line Kawasaki Heavy Industries & CSR Qingdao Sifang C151A 513-514 @ Boon Lay 2024-12-27: S5A-0043· CC BY 4.0
  3. 3. C151A 515516: Lee480· CC BY-SA 3.0
  4. 4. C151A, Expo MRT, 2018 (01): Bahnfrend· CC BY-SA 4.0
  5. 5. EW15 Tanjong Pagar MRT Platform A KHI C151A 20200918 151651: zhenkang· CC BY-SA 4.0
  6. 6. EW15 Tanjong Pagar MRT Platform A KHI C151A 20200918 171619: zhenkang· CC BY-SA 4.0
  7. 7. EWL malfunctioning Staris at KHI C151A 20200918 125709: zhenkang· CC BY-SA 4.0
  8. 8. Kawasaki Heavy Industries & CSR Sifang C151A at Canberra Station 0125: 33Loading· CC BY-SA 4.0
  9. 9. Kawasaki Sifang C151A 0225: 33Loading· CC BY-SA 4.0
  10. 10. Kawasaki-CSR Qingdao Sifang C151A EMU: Samson Ng . D201@EAL· CC BY-SA 4.0
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1/10 Willis Chong .· CC BY 3.0

what is it?

The Kawasaki Heavy Industries & CSR Qingdao Sifang C151A is a class of trains that are the fourth 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 Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) and CRRC Qingdao Sifang under Contract 151A. Their introduction to the network has increased the capacity of both lines by 15%. They are the last batch of rolling stock on the two lines to be painted in the "Blackbird" livery. Developed from the Kawasaki Heavy Industries & Nippon Sharyo C751B trainsets, further developments of the type include the C151B and C151C trains featuring design updates and changes.

who runs it

SMRT TrainsSMRT Corporation

base stats

  • speed 90 km/htop speed
  • power 2.4 MWpower output
  • weight 227 tin working order
  • seats 1,624passengers
  • built 210made 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 15 years ago, in 2011.
  • 2.4 MW is about 28 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
  • Weighs about as much as 38 African elephants (~6 t each).
  • 139 m long: about 31 cars parked nose to tail.
  • Seats 1,624: 32 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
2011
in service from
2011
status
in service
number built
210
kind
Electric multiple unit
traction
electric
origin
🇯🇵 Japan
builders
Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing, CRRC Qingdao Sifang Co., Ltd.
operators
SMRT Trains, SMRT Corporation
top speed
90 km/h
power
2.4 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
227 t
capacity
1,624 passengers

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

Sources: Wikidata Q6379761, Wikipedia: Kawasaki Heavy Industries & CSR Qingdao Sifang C151A (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.

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