CAMBODIA\u2019s Royal Railway has confirmed that it has concluded a deal to purchase 11 class 183 KiHa DMU cars from JR Hokkaido.<\/p>\n
The DMUs will be used on Royal Railway\u2019s Phnom Penh – Poipet – Sihanoukville service, replacing existing locomotive-hauled trains as well as increasing the operational passenger fleet.<\/p>\n
The trains were shipped from Hokkaido on April 15 and are scheduled to arrive at Sihanoukville Port in Cambodia on April 27.<\/p>\n
Royal Railway confirmed to IRJ that the 1067mm-gauge trains will be adapted to operate on Cambodia\u2019s 1000mm-gauge network, including by changing bogies and adjusting brake holders. With no other major adaptation required, the hope is for the trains to enter service in June.<\/p>\n
The class 183s date from 1981 and were used by JR Hokkaido and JR Kyushu. A total of 36 cars were built, the last of which were withdrawn from Okhotsk<\/em> and Taisetsu<\/em> services operated by JR Hokkaido in 2023. JR Hokkaido has previously donated or sold class 183s to State Railway of Thailand, Myanmar Railways, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.<\/p>\n The post Cambodia buys Japanese DMUs<\/a> appeared first on International Railway Journal<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" CAMBODIA\u2019s Royal Railway has confirmed that it has concluded a deal to purchase 11 class 183 KiHa DMU cars from JR Hokkaido. The DMUs will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rail-news","category-transport"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}