MTR KTT

what is it?

KTT (simplified Chinese: 九广通; traditional Chinese: 九廣通) was a push-pull train set used by the MTR Corporation Limited in Hong Kong on the Guangdong Through Train route. It was used on the Guangdong line (Hung Hom (Kowloon), Hong Kong - Changping - Guangzhou East) of the through train service. The double-deck "KTT" trailers have bottom floors which are lower than ordinary cars serving on the same pair of tracks.

who runs it

MTR Corporation LimitedKowloon–Canton Railway Corporation

base stats

• speed 160 km/htop speed
• power 12.2 MWpower output
• weight 84 tin working order
• seats 112passengers
• built 2made in total

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 28 years ago, in 1998.
• 🏎️Top speed is 1.2× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
• ⏱️At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 15 minutes.
• 🚗12.2 MW is about 144 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
• 🐘Weighs about as much as 14 African elephants (~6 t each).
• 📏25.5 m long: about 6 cars parked nose to tail.
• 🧍Seats 112: 2 full city buses (~50 seats each).
• ⌛Served for 22 years (1998–2020).

multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.

spec sheet

built

1998

in service from

1998

retired

2020

status

retired

number built

2

kind

multiple unit

traction

electric

origin

🇨🇳 China

builders

Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works, ABB Group, Kinki Sharyo

operators

MTR Corporation Limited, Kowloon–Canton Railway Corporation

top speed

160 km/h

power

12.2 MW

gauge

1,435 mm standard gauge

electric system

Catenary

length

25.5 m

weight

84 t

capacity

112 passengers

From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.