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Taoyuan Metro 1000 series
🇹🇼 Taiwan ·built by Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing· from 2017· Taiwanese trains
3 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Taoyuan Metro Commuter Train 2017-02-25: Subscriptshoe9· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. Kawasaki-TRSC 1000 Series EMU: Samson Ng . D201@EAL· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. Taoyuan Metro 1000 flying-pikachu 20230602: Rsa· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The Taoyuan Metro 1000 series, also referred to as Commuter Trains, are the electric multiple unit train types that are used for the all-stop Commuter services on the Taoyuan Airport MRT.
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 9 years ago, in 2017.
- 3 MW is about 35 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 26 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 82.1 m long: about 18 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 1,116: 22 full city buses (~50 seats each).
metro: Urban rapid transit: frequent, high-capacity trains, often underground.
spec sheet
- built
- 2017
- in service from
- 2017
- status
- in service
- number built
- 80
- kind
- metro
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇹🇼 Taiwan
- builders
- Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing, TRSC
- operators
- Taoyuan Metro Corporation
- top speed
- 110 km/h
- power
- 3 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Bo′Bo′+Bo′Bo′+Bo′Bo′+Bo′Bo′
- formation
- 4-car sets, DM1–M1–M2–DM2
- length
- 82.1 m
- weight
- 157 t
- capacity
- 1,116 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q30944511, Wikipedia: Taoyuan Metro 1000 series (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.