New Taipei Metro C610

The New Taipei Metro C610 is a medium-capacity driverless metro train that runs on New Taipei Metro's Circular line. A total of 17 four-car trains were manufactured by Hitachi Rail Italy, formerly AnsaldoBreda, in Reggio Calabria and then shipped to Hsinchu for final assembly at Taiwan Rolling Stock Company. AnsaldoBreda won the tender held by the Taipei City Government in 2009, and the trains entered service with the opening of the first phase of the Circular line on 31 January 2020. The C610 uses the same steel wheels as the high-capacity trains of Taipei Metro, has open-gangway connections between the carriages that raise capacity, and uses external sliding doors instead of the plug doors found on others in the Hitachi Rail Italy Driverless Metro family. Its nose has a 20-degree sloping shape that references a dolphin.