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R211 (New York City Subway car)

🇺🇸 United States ·built by Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing· from 2023· New York City subway train

🚇 metro electric ✓ in service
10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
  1. 1. R211 A train approaching 80th Street August 2025: 4300streetcar· CC BY 4.0
  2. 2. First R211 Subway Cars Roll Into Service on the A Line: Metropolitan Transportation Authority· CC BY 2.0
  3. 3. From the A Train td (2023-09-04) 001 - R211 FIND: Tdorante10· CC BY-SA 4.0
  4. 4. NYC R211 doors closing August 2025: 4300streetcar· CC BY 4.0
  5. 5. R211 Open House (38033470954): Metropolitan Transportation Authority of the State of New York· CC BY 2.0
  6. 6. R211 door mechanism: The I.N.D Subway BFDI Brothers on YouTube (Image uploaded by TriStateGuy ).· CC BY 4.0
  7. 7. MTA Announces First R211 Train Now Serving the Bronx 1: Marc A. Hermann· CC BY 4.0
  8. 8. R160 E train and R211 A train at 34th Street Penn Station August 2025: 4300streetcar· CC BY 4.0
  9. 9. R211 4289: Kidfly182· CC BY 4.0
  10. 10. R211 A Train 002: Kidfly182· CC BY 4.0
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R211 (New York City Subway car), photo 1 of 10
1/10 4300streetcar· CC BY 4.0

what is it?

The R211 is a class of New Technology Train (NTT) subway cars built for the New York City Transit Authority. Being built by Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing for the B Division of the New York City Subway and for the Staten Island Railway (SIR), they will replace aging subway car models: all R44 cars on the SIR, plus all R46 and some R68 subway cars. It contain features such as wider doors, information displays, and LED-lit doorways.

who runs it

Metropolitan Transportation Authority

base stats

  • speed 106 km/htop speed
  • weight 37.2 tin working order
  • seats 210passengers
  • built 1,950made 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 3 years ago, in 2023.
  • Weighs about as much as 6 African elephants (~6 t each).
  • 91.8 m long: about 20 cars parked nose to tail.
  • Seats 210: 4 full city buses (~50 seats each).

metro: Urban rapid transit: frequent, high-capacity trains, often underground.

spec sheet

built
2023
in service from
2023
status
in service
number built
1,950
kind
metro
traction
electric
origin
🇺🇸 United States
builders
Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing
operators
Metropolitan Transportation Authority
top speed
106 km/h
power
—
gauge
1,435 mm standard gauge
formation
Five-car sets
length
91.8 m
weight
37.2 t
capacity
210 passengers

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

Sources: Wikidata Q7274448, Wikipedia: R211 (New York City Subway car) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.

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