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The 12 JR Kyushu 4-car sets based at Minami-Fukuoka Depot were formed as shown below. Sets NM101–110 had a KuHa 715-100 converted cab car at one end, while sets NM111–112 had converted cab cars at both ends.
The 15 JR East 4-car sets (N1–15) based at Sendai Depot were formed as follows.
The MoHa 714 cars were each fitted with one pantograph.
File:JNR EC Tc715 side view.png, KuHa715
File:JNR EC M714 side view.png, MoHa714
File:JNR EC M715 side view.png, MoHa715
File:JNR EC Tc715-100 side view rev.png, KuHa715-100
File:Kuhane581-8 kyushu interior 20070119.jpg, Interior of preserved KuHa 715-1, January 2007
KuHa 715-1 is preserved at the Kyushu Railway History Museum in
electric multiple unit
An electric multiple unit or EMU is a multiple-unit train consisting of self-propelled carriages using electricity as the motive power. An EMU requires no separate locomotive, as electric traction motors are incorporated within one or a numbe ...
(EMU) train type introduced in February 1984 by Japanese National Railways
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Network Railways
As of June 1, 1949, the date of establishment of JNR, it operated of narrow gauge () railways in all 46 pref ...
(JNR), and later operated by East Japan Railway Company
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(JR East) and Kyushu Railway Company
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(JR Kyushu) on local services in Japan. They were converted from former 581/583 series sleeping car EMUs.
Operations
12 4-car 715-0 series sets converted from former 581 series EMU cars were introduced from February 1984 onNagasaki Main Line
The , or simply Nagasaki Line, is a railway line owned by the Kyushu Railway Company (JR Kyushu) connecting Tosu Station in Saga Prefecture to Nagasaki Station in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. There is a separate branch of this line from Kikitsu S ...
and Sasebo Line
The is a railway line in Kyushu, Japan, operated by the Kyushu Railway Company (JR Kyushu). It connects Kōhoku Station in Kōhoku, Saga Prefecture to Sasebo Station in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture. It is part of the route connecting Sasebo wit ...
local services in Kyushu alongside new 713 series
The is a Japanese AC electric multiple unit (EMU) train type first introduced by Japanese National Railways (JNR) in 1984 and later operated on local services by Kyushu Railway Company (JR Kyushu). As of 1 October 2012, all four of the 2-car se ...
EMUs.
15 4-car 715-1000 series sets converted from former 581/583 series EMU cars were introduced from March 1985 on Tōhoku Main Line
The Tōhoku Main Line ( ja, 東北本線, ) is a long railway line in Japan operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East). The line starts from Tokyo Station in Chiyoda, Tokyo and passes through such cities as Saitama, Utsunomiya, Fukush ...
local services in the Sendai
is the capital Cities of Japan, city of Miyagi Prefecture, the largest city in the Tōhoku region. , the city had a population of 1,091,407 in 525,828 households, and is one of Japan's 20 Cities designated by government ordinance of Japan, desig ...
area.
Formations
715-0 series
The 12 JR Kyushu 4-car sets based at Minami-Fukuoka Depot were formed as shown below. Sets NM101–110 had a KuHa 715-100 converted cab car at one end, while sets NM111–112 had converted cab cars at both ends.
Sets NM101–110
Sets NM111–112
The MoHa 714 cars were each fitted with one pantograph.715-1000 series
The 15 JR East 4-car sets (N1–15) based at Sendai Depot were formed as follows.
The MoHa 714 cars were each fitted with one pantograph.
Interior
Rebuilding
The sets were rebuilt from surplus former 581/583 series EMU cars at JNR factories in Tsuchisaki (Akita), Kōriyama (Fukushima), Mattō (Ishikawa), andKokura
is an ancient castle town and the center of Kitakyushu, Japan, guarding the Straits of Shimonoseki between Honshu and Kyushu with its suburb Moji. Kokura is also the name of the penultimate station on the southbound San'yō Shinkansen lin ...
(Kitakyūshū). Rebuilding work involved removing the upper sleeper berths, adding longitudinal bench seating at the ends of cars, increasing the number of doorways, reducing the number of toilets and washing areas, and the addition of slab-front cab ends to some former intermediate cars.
715-0 series
715-1000 series
History
The JR East 715-1000 series sets were withdrawn from revenue service on 13 March 1998. The remaining JR Kyushu 715-0 series sets were finally withdrawn from service on 26 March 1998.Preserved examples
KuHa 715-1 is preserved at the Kyushu Railway History Museum in Kitakyushu
is a Cities of Japan, city located in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. As of June 1, 2019, Kitakyushu has an estimated population of 940,978, making it the second-largest city in both Fukuoka Prefecture and the island of Kyushu after the city of Fuku ...
, restored cosmetically to its original identity of KuHaNe 581-8.
See also
*419 series
The was an electric multiple unit (EMU) train type introduced in 1985 by Japanese National Railways (JNR), and later operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR-West) on local services along the Japan Sea coast of Japan until March 2011. They wer ...
, similar EMU used in the Hokuriku region of Japan
References
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