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File:Keihan10000-inside-01.jpg, Interior view in January 2017
File:Keihan10000-controller.jpg, A cab interior view in January 2017
A total of six four-car sets were built, with three sets built in 2002 and three in 2006. From 2009, the fleet was repainted into the new Keihan commuter train livery of dark green and white, with the entire fleet treated by 2010.
In February 2015, set 10001 was reformed as a seven-car set by adding two former 9000 series cars (9601 and 9602 from sets 9001 and 9002 respectively) and a former 7200 series car (7301 of set 7201) made surplus when former eight-car sets were reduced to seven cars in 2015.
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) commuter train type operated by the private railway
A private railway is a railroad run by a private business entity (usually a corporation but not need be), as opposed to a railroad run by a public sector.
Japan
In Japan, , commonly simply ''private railway'', refers to a public transit railway o ...
operator Keihan Electric Railway
, known colloquially as the , , or simply , is a major Japanese private railway operator in Osaka, Kyoto, and Shiga Prefectures. The transit network includes seven lines; four main lines with heavy rolling stock, two interurban lines, and a funic ...
in Kyoto, Japan, since 2002.
Design
The 10000 series trains were developed from the earlier 7200 series and 9000 series trains, and have long aluminium-body cars each with three pairs of sliding doors per side.Operations
Since 2007, the 10000 series sets are primarily used onKeihan Katano Line
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The is a 6.9 km railway line in northern Osaka Prefecture, Japan, operated by the private railway company Keihan Electric Railway. It connects Hirakatashi Station on the Keihan Main Line with Kisaichi Station.
Operation
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driver-only operation
One-person operation (OPO), also known as driver-only operation (DOO), one-man operation (OMO), single person train operation (SPTO), or one-person train operation (OPTO), similarly to Driver Controlled Operation, is operation of a train, bus, ...
services.
Formations
, the fleet consists of six four-car sets formed as follows, with two motored cab ("Mc") cars at the ends, and two non-powered trailer ("T") cars in the middle.4-car sets
* "Mc" cars are motored driving cars (with driving cabs). * "T" cars are unpowered trailer cars. * The Mc cars each have one scissors-type pantograph.7-car trainsets
Set 10001, reformed as a seven-car set in 2016, is formed as follows. Car 10701 was renumbered from 9000 series car 9601, car 10101 was renumbered from former 7200 series car 7301, and 10751 was renumbered from former 9000 series car 9602.Interior
History
A total of six four-car sets were built, with three sets built in 2002 and three in 2006. From 2009, the fleet was repainted into the new Keihan commuter train livery of dark green and white, with the entire fleet treated by 2010.
In February 2015, set 10001 was reformed as a seven-car set by adding two former 9000 series cars (9601 and 9602 from sets 9001 and 9002 respectively) and a former 7200 series car (7301 of set 7201) made surplus when former eight-car sets were reduced to seven cars in 2015.
References
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