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Interurban multiple unit
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Walkers Limited· Queensland Rail EMU interurban trainsets
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Queensland Rail Interurban Multiple Unit 173 at Beenleigh for Gold Coast: Brisiman (Anthony Evans)· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. IMU 184: QRtrains· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Interurban multiple units (IMU) are a class of electric multiple units manufactured by Walkers Limited/Downer EDI Rail, Maryborough for Queensland Rail's Citytrain division between 1996 and 2011. The IMU is divided into three subclasses, units 101–110 as the 100 series, units 121–124 as the 120 series, and units 161–188, as the 160 series.
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 1.1× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- 1.4 MW is about 17 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 22 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 72.4 m long: about 16 cars parked nose to tail.
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- —
- number built
- 30
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Walkers Limited, Downer Rail, ALSTOM Transportation Germany
- operators
- Queensland Rail
- top speed
- 140 km/h
- power
- 1.4 MW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- electric system
- (nominal) from overhead catenary
- wheel arrangement
- Bo′Bo′+Bo′Bo′+2′2′ (100)
- formation
- 3-car sets
- length
- 72.4 m
- weight
- 132 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q6057245, Wikipedia: Interurban multiple unit (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.