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Siemens C651
🇩🇪 Germany ·built by Siemens Mobility· from 1995· class of electric multiple units in Singapore
10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. SMRTJE-Front: mailer_diablo· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. Siemens C651: CTB990· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. C651-Standing: No machine-readable author provided. Mailer diablo assumed (based on copyright claims).· Public domain
- 4. Siemens C651 2231: Img by Calvin teo· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 5. C651 219,220 number n panel: Vincent60030· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 6. C651 exterior: Terence Ong· CC BY 2.5
- 7. EW1 Pasir Ris MRT Platform A Siemens C651 20230514 084100: ZKang123· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 8. EW22 Dover MRT Platform B Siemens C651 20211207 115406: ZKang123· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 9. EW3 Simei Platform A Siemens C651 20200808 172805: ZKang123· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 10. EW4 CG Tanah Merah MRT Platform B Siemens C651 20201107 190937 2: ZKang123· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Siemens C651 is a class of retired trains that were the second generation of electric multiple unit rolling stock that operated on the North–South and East–West lines of Singapore's Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system, manufactured by Siemens Mobility (SIE) and SGP Verkehrstechnik in Vienna, Austria under Contract 651. A total of 114 cars consisting of 19 trainsets were purchased in 1992 and were in service from May 1995 to September 2024.
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 31 years ago, in 1995.
- 2.2 MW is about 26 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 6 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 139 m long: about 31 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 1,920: 38 full city buses (~50 seats each).
- Served for 29 years (1995–2024).
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1995
- in service from
- 1995
- retired
- 2024
- status
- retired
- number built
- 114
- kind
- Electric multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- builders
- Siemens Mobility, Simmering-Graz-Pauker, Siemens
- operators
- SMRT Trains, SMRT Corporation
- top speed
- 90 km/h
- power
- 2.2 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
- 35 t
- capacity
- 1,920 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7510888, Wikipedia: Siemens C651 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.