The MTA’s new $1.5 billion order of subway cars will mean shorter trains on the C line, the Daily News has learned.

The new train car, dubbed the R268, is expected to look and function much like New York City Transit’s most recent acquisition, the R211 , which currently is in service on the A, C, G and B lines. Both cars are manufactured by Kawasaki, and equipped with systems that can communicate with modern computerized signals .

Both cars have been sold as replacements for the aging R46 and R68 trains — the oldest rolling stock on the subway system’s lettered lines.

But the MTA’s recent order of 378 R268 cars includes 11 eight-car trains that, the Daily News has learned, will be sent to the C line to replace the still-new, 10-car R211 sets that have been operating on the local l

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