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Taipei Metro C341
🇹🇼 Taiwan ·built by Siemens Mobility· from 2004· class of electric multiple units on the Taipei Metro Blue line
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. C341 1201 at Ximen Station 20060531: 蒼空 翔· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The Taipei Metro C341 is the third generation of heavy capacity electric multiple units on the Taipei Metro in Taipei, Taiwan. Built by Siemens Mobility and SGP Verkehrstechnik in Austria, it was introduced on the Bannan line in 2004.
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 22 years ago, in 2004.
- 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 22 years.
metro: Urban rapid transit: frequent, high-capacity trains, often underground.
spec sheet
- built
- 2004
- in service from
- 2004
- status
- in service
- number built
- 36
- kind
- metro
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇹🇼 Taiwan
- builders
- Siemens Mobility, Simmering-Graz-Pauker
- 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 Q24088506, Wikipedia: Taipei Metro C341 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.