China Railways CR450AF/BF EMU interior and facilities

Recently, China Railways launched a new generation of two CR450 bullet trains, known as CR450AF and CR450BF. Unlike earlier bullet trains in the Fuxing family, the CR450AF/BF trainsets comes with upgrades not found in the older CR400 family. The design improvements includes speed, safety, comfort, intelligence, and energy efficacy. On top of that, there are also larger wheelchair spaces as well as bicycle racks and adjustable luggage racks. In this blog post, I am going to show you what the train looks like based on several WeChat sources. To anyone not aware of the new CR450 bullet trains, please see my earlier blog post here.

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Layout Map of the CR450 EMU (machine translated)

Source: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/kwRUHhTnAB6nVn0zH-IiUQ

Interior of CR450AF

Driver’s cab of CR450AF

Business Suite seating with rotating seats that can be adjusted to conference mode for maximum 6 passengers. (car 1)

Business Class seating (car 8)

Semiprivate Business Suite of CR450AF

2+2 Premium First Class Seating

2+2 First Class Seating

Multifunctional suite of CR450AF

4-person Family Suite of CR450AF

2+3 Second Class Seating (car 3)

2+3 Second Class Seating (car 4)

2+3 Second Class Seating (car 5)

Barrier free toilet in CR450AF

Cafe Car of CR450AF

Interior of CR450BF

Driver’s cab of CR450BF

Business Class seating

Business Suite seating with rotating seats that can be adjusted to conference mode for maximum 6 passengers.

Semiprivate Business Suite of CR450BF

Multifunctional Suite of CR450BF

Exterior of Multifunctional Suite

4-person Family Suite of CR450BF

2+2 Premium First Class Seating

2+2 First Class Seating

2+3 Second Class Seating

Barrier free toilet in CR450BF

Cafe Car of CR450BF

Bicycle Rack in CR450BF

References

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