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2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Korean Tilting Train Hanbit200 (TTX, Tilting Train eXpress): Subway06· CC BY 3.0
- 2. Tilting Train Express: Jackpage· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
Tilting Train Express (TTX) or Hanvit 200 is a South Korean experimental tilting train, which was tested by the Korea Railroad Research Institute (KRRI).
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
- Top speed is 1.7× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 11 minutes.
- 4 MW is about 47 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 57 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 24.5 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 278: 6 full city buses (~50 seats each).
high-speed train: Built for 200–350 km/h on dedicated lines, like the TGV, ICE or Shinkansen.
spec sheet
- built
- —
- status
- in service
- number built
- 1
- kind
- high-speed train
- traction
- electric
- builders
- TTX Consortium
- operators
- TTX Consortium
- top speed
- 222 km/h
- power
- 4 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- electric system
- catenary
- formation
- 2M+2T+2M
- length
- 24.5 m
- weight
- 344 t
- capacity
- 278 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q485917, Wikipedia: Tilting Train Express (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.