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Taipei Metro C321
🇹🇼 Taiwan ·built by Siemens Mobility· from 1999· class of electric multiple units on the Taipei Metro Bannan Line
4 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. 板南線列車: The original uploader was 台灣少年 at Chinese Wikipedia .· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. C321 modern version at Ximen Station 20250718 T1445: Daniel.yin2· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. C321 1109 B1 SI 20150705: Subscriptshoe9· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. Taipei Metro C321 Train New DI: Justin441995· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The Taipei Metro C321 is the second generation of heavy-capacity rolling stock used on the Taipei Metro in Taipei, Taiwan. Built by Siemens Mobility in Germany, it was introduced on the Bannan line in 1999.
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 27 years ago, in 1999.
- 3.7 MW is about 43 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 7 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 141 m long: about 31 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 1,914: 38 full city buses (~50 seats each).
- Still in service after 27 years.
metro: Urban rapid transit: frequent, high-capacity trains, often underground.
spec sheet
- built
- 1999
- in service from
- 1999
- status
- in service
- number built
- 216
- kind
- metro
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇹🇼 Taiwan
- builders
- Siemens Mobility, Simmering-Graz-Pauker, Union Carriage & Wagon
- operators
- Taipei Metro
- top speed
- 90 km/h
- power
- 3.7 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Bo′Bo′+2′2′+Bo′Bo′+Bo′Bo′+2′2′+Bo′Bo′
- formation
- 6-car sets, DM1–T–M2+M2–T–DM1
- length
- 141 m
- weight
- 39.5 t
- capacity
- 1,914 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q10914162, Wikipedia: Taipei Metro C321 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.