Kawasaki Heavy Industries & CSR Qingdao Sifang 151A

Kawasaki Heavy Industries & CSR Qingdao Sifang C151A are the fourth generation of trains running on the North South Line and the East West Line.

22 trainsets of 6 cars each were awarded to Kawasaki Heavy Industries and CSR Qingdao Sifang by the Land Transport Authority. In 2013, a further order of 13 trainsets was placed and as of 2014, all 35 trainsets have been officially put into revenue service.

Fleet

C151A Fleet Info

History

On May 6, 2009, the Land Transport Authority announced that Kawasaki Heavy Industries and CSR Qingdao Sifang had won over Hyundai Rotem, Bombardier Transportation and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to secure the contract at a cost of S$369 million, despite Hyundai Rotem offering the lowest bid at S$323 million for the order of 22 trainsets. CSR Sifang handled the manufacturing and testing of the rolling stock, while Kawasaki oversaw the project and design. The C151A contract was the first successful joint venture between these two companies in the international market.

Design

	Initial
Exterior Design
Livery	Black,Red,Grey (Top to bottom)
Train Run Number	Yellow LED
Interior Design
Colour Scheme	Red (First,Last Car) Blue (Second,Fifth Car) Green (Third,Fourth Car) Lighter Shade in center 3 seats.
Seats between Doors	7
Wheelchair Bay	2, 1 each at Third and Fourth Car
Door Closing Indicator Lights	5 Red LED (Top)
System
Safety System	Automatic Train Control (ATC), Automatic Train Operation (ATO), Automatic Train Protection (ATP)
Signalling System	Current: Fixed Block Future: Communication Based Train Control (CBTC)
Traction Motor	Fuji Electric Self-Ventilated Three-Phase AC Induction Motor

SMRT Active Route Map Information System

C151As went into service with STARIS installed.

Trainset numbers

The car numbers of the trains range from x501 to x570, where x depends on the carriage type.

• The first digit depends upon whether the car is the first, second or third car from the end of the train it is nearer to, where the first car has a 3, the second has a 1 and the third has a 2.
• The other 3 digits is the train identification number. A full length train of 6 cars have 2 different identification number, one for the first 3 cars, and the same number plus 1, for the other three. The smaller number is always at the front.
  • For example, train 569/570 would consist of 6 cars with serial number 3569, 1569, 2569, 2570, 1570 and 3570 respectively.
• Depending on the direction of travel, the sequence may be reversed.

Gallery

• Pinkint.jpg

  Interior of the cab cars

• Blueint(1).jpg

  Interior of the second or fifth cars

• Greenint(1).jpg

  Interior of the middle cars

• C151A 501-502 exterior.jpg

  C151A at Expo Station

• C151A 507-508 exterior.jpg

  C151A at Expo Station

• C151A541542builderplate.jpeg

  C151A Manufacturer Plate

References

• Trains