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 2008Sotetsu website, Retrieved 23 June 2008
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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