The is a private railway in

Chiba Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Chiba Prefecture has a population of 6,278,060 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of . Chiba Prefecture borders Ibaraki Prefecture to the north, Saitama Prefecture to the ...

, Japan. It connects

Narashino is a city located in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 175,292 in 81,985 households and a population density of 8400 persons per km². The total area of the city is Geography Narashino is located in far northw ...

and

Matsudo 260px, Matsudo City Hall is a city in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 498,575 in 242,981 households and a population density of 8100 persons per km². The total area of the city is . Geography Matsudo is loca ...

. It is a subsidiary of

Keisei Electric Railway The (stylized as K'SEI since 2001) is a major private railway in Chiba Prefecture and Tokyo, Japan. The name ''Keisei'' is the combination of the kanji 京 from and 成 from , which the railway's main line connects. The combination uses diffe ...

. It has the following bus company subsidiaries. * Funabashi Shin-Keisei Bus * Matsudo Shin-Keisei Bus

Lines

The company operates one line, the 26.5 km

Shin-Keisei Line The is a railway line in Japan owned by the private railway company Shin-Keisei Electric Railway, a subsidiary of Keisei Electric Railway. The line runs between Matsudo Station in Matsudo, Chiba, and Keisei-Tsudanuma Station in Narashino, Chiba ...

, between

and Keisei Tsudanuma.

Rolling stock

* 8800 series (since 1986) * 8900 series (since 1993) *

N800 series The is an electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated by the private railway operator Shin-Keisei Electric Railway on the Shin-Keisei Line in Chiba Prefecture, Japan, since May 2005. Design Built by Nippon Sharyo in Aichi Prefecture, t ...

(since 2005) * 80000 series (since 27 December 2019) All trains are based at Kunugiyama and Tsudanuma Depots. File:Shikeisei-Type8800_8801-1.jpg, Shin-Keisei 8800 series File:Shikeisei-Type8900_8931.jpg, Shin-Keisei 8900 series File:Shikeisei-TypeN800_N851.jpg, Shin-Keisei N800 series File:Shikeisei-Type80000_80021.jpg, Shin-Keisei 80000 series

Former rolling stock

* 800 series (1971 – July 2010) * 8000 series (1978 – November 2021) File:Shin-Keisei Type 800.jpg, Shin-Keisei 800 series File:Shinkeisei8000pink-wiki.jpg, Shin-Keisei 8000 series

History

After World War II, the ownership of the right-of-way of an uncompleted

Imperial Japanese Army The was the official ground-based armed force of the Empire of Japan from 1868 to 1945. It was controlled by the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff Office and the Ministry of the Army, both of which were nominally subordinate to the Emperor o ...

military railway The military use of railways derives from their ability to move troops or materiel rapidly and, less usually, on their use as a platform for military systems, like very large railroad guns and armoured trains, in their own right. Railways have ...

line was transferred to Keisei. Shin-Keisei was established as a subsidiary of Keisei on 23 October 1946 to construct and operate the line. The first section of the line, 2.5 km from to , was opened on 27 December 1947, with a track gauge of and electrified at 1,500 V DC overhead. The line was regauged to in October 1953, and the entire line was completed as a single-track line by 21 April 1955. In August 1959, the line was again regauged, this time to to match the standard gauge used by

. In June 2014, the company unveiled a new corporate image with a new corporate logo and "gentle pink" corporate colour scheme and train livery. The company's entire fleet of trains was scheduled to be reliveried in the new colour scheme, with the first train, an 8800 series set entering service from 29 August 2014.

References

External links

* * {{Authority control Railway companies of Japan Companies based in Chiba Prefecture Japanese companies established in 1946 Railway companies established in 1946