what is it?
The NC3 are a model of diesel multiple units operated by China Railway. They were built by Ganz-MAVAG in 1962 and imported from the Hungarian People's Republic to be operated in China. They were not the first DMU to be operated in China; the Dongfeng DMU had been built a few years earlier, but only in a single set.
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
- 373 kW is about 4 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 10 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 94.8 m long: about 21 cars parked nose to tail.
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- —
- retired
- 1987
- status
- retired
- number built
- 4
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇨🇳 China
- builders
- MÁVAG, Ganz Works
- operators
- China State Railway Group
- top speed
- 128 km/h
- power
- 373 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- B′2′+2′2′+2′2′+2′B′
- length
- 94.8 m
- weight
- 58 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q47177333, Wikipedia: China Railway NC3 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.