HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

The is an
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
Sagami Railway The , or , is a private railway company operating three lines in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of holding company Sotetsu Holdings, Inc. Sotetsu Holdings is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange; 6.58% of it is owned ...
(Sotetsu) in Japan since June 2009, replacing aging
5000 5000 or ''variation'', may refer to: In general * A.D. 5000, the last year of the 5th millennium CE, an exceptional common year starting on Wednesday * 5000 BCE, a year in the 5th millennium BC * 5000s AD, a decade, century, millennium in the 6th ...
and 7000 series trains. Based on the JR E233-1000 series design, cars have four pairs of sliding doors per side.


Formation

, the fleet consists of five ten-car sets, based at Kashiwadai Depot and formed as follows. Car 2 has two single-arm
pantographs A pantograph (, from their original use for copying writing) is a mechanical linkage connected in a manner based on parallelograms so that the movement of one pen, in tracing an image, produces identical movements in a second pen. If a line dr ...
, and cars 4 and 8 each have one.


Interior

Cars 1 and 10 have wheelchair spaces. Cars 4 and 9 are designated as mildly air-conditioned cars. File:Sotetsu_11902_cab.jpg, Driver's cab File:Sagami-Railway-Series11000_inside.jpg, Interior view File:Sagami-Railway-Series11000_Priority-Seats.jpg, Priority seating File:Sagami-Railway-Series11000_Free-Space.jpg, Wheelchair space File:Sagami-Railway-Series11000_Digital-Signage.jpg, LCD passenger information displays


History

The first set was delivered from Tokyu Car Corporation (now
J-TREC is a manufacturer of heavy rail cars in Japan, formerly known as . The company is based in Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, and a member of East Japan Railway Company (JR East) group. J-TREC manufactures rail vehicles not only for JR East and Tokyu Corp ...
) in October 2008, and entered revenue-earning service from 15 June 2009.Sotetsu press release
"6月14日、新型車両11000系デビューイベントを開催" (8 June 2009)
. Retrieved on 9 June 2009.
A fifth set, 11005, was delivered in January 2013.


See also

*
Sotetsu 10000 series The is an electric multiple unit (EMU) commuter train type operated by the private railway operator Sagami Railway (Sotetsu) in Japan. History The trains are based on JR East's E231 series design, and were built to replace ageing 5000, 2100, ...


References


External links


Fiscal 2008 investment plan, 22 May 2008
Sotetsu website, Retrieved 23 June 2008 {{DEFAULTSORT:Sotetsu 11000 series Electric multiple units of Japan 11000 series Train-related introductions in 2009 Tokyu Car multiple units J-TREC multiple units 1500 V DC multiple units of Japan