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Electric Tilt Train
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Walkers Limited· from 1997· Class of Rollingstock operated by Queensland Rail in Queensland, Australia
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3 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. City of Rockhampton train (Sunshine railway station, Brisbane): QRtrains· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. City of Maryborough Platform 10 Roma Street Station Brisbane P1280919 (cropped): John Robert McPherson· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. Electric Tilt Train at Roma Street, 2001: Jotrain G· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Electric Tilt Train (ETT) is a type of high-speed tilting train, operated and maintained by Queensland Rail. The ETT runs services on the North Coast line from Brisbane to Bundaberg and Rockhampton, as part of the Tilt Train service. Having reached 210 km/h (130 mph), it is the fastest narrow-gauge train type in the world.
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 29 years ago, in 1997.
- Top speed is 1.6× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 11 minutes.
- 2.7 MW is about 32 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 7 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 136 m long: about 30 cars parked nose to tail.
- Still in service after 28 years.
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1997
- in service from
- 1998
- status
- in service
- number built
- 2
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Walkers Limited
- operators
- Queensland Rail
- top speed
- 210 km/h
- power
- 2.7 MW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- electric system
- (nominal) from overhead catenary
- wheel arrangement
- Bo′Bo′+2′2′+Bo′Bo′+Bo′Bo′+2′2′+Bo′Bo′
- formation
- 6-car sets, TTD1–TTT–TTM+TTM–TTT–TTD2
- length
- 136 m
- weight
- 44 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q23641827, Wikipedia: Electric Tilt Train (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.