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The or SE (Super Express), later becoming SSE (Short Super Express), was a "
File:OER-SE3000-inside.jpg, Inside
File:OER-SE3000-inside-buffet.jpg, Refreshment Counter
File:OER-SE3000-inside-cab.jpg, Driver's Cab
File:Blue Ribbon Prize 1957 of Japan Railfan Club.JPG, Blue Ribbon Award plaque
The or SE (Super Express), later becoming SSE (Short Super Express), was a "Romancecar
The is Odakyu Electric Railway's name for its limited express luxury tourist services south-west of Tokyo, to mountain resorts such as Hakone and Gotemba (Mount Fuji), and beaches such as Odawara and Enoshima. When the service started in 19 ...
" electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated by the Odakyu Electric Railway
, commonly known as Odakyū, is a major railway company based in Tokyo, Japan, best known for its '' Romancecar'' series of limited express trains from Tokyo to Odawara, Enoshima, Tama New Town, and Hakone.
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in the Tokyo area of Japan. It was the recipient of the inaugural Blue Ribbon Award presented by the Japan Railfan Club in 1958.
Design
The 3000 series trains were articulated with shared bogies, six of which were motored.Formations
8-car 3000 series SE
The original 8-car "SE" sets were formed as shown below. The M2 and M7 cars were each fitted with one PT42-K lozenge-typepantograph
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 ...
.
Interior
History
Service first started in 1957 with the SE trainset, which, on a trial run, attained the world speed record at the time (145 km/h) for anarrow gauge
A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than standard . Most narrow-gauge railways are between and .
Since narrow-gauge railways are usually built with tighter curves, smaller structu ...
train. This record gave impetus for the design of the first Shinkansen
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* 0 Series Shinkansen, a Japanese train series
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See also
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This train adopted Articulated bogie for comfortable, efficiency, economical, and speedup. This feature took over NSE, LSE LSE may refer to:
Computing
* LSE (programming language), a computer programming language
* LSE, Latent sector error, a media assessment measure related to the hard disk drive storage technology
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, HiSE, and VSE trainset.
The 50th anniversary of the Romancecar's narrow gauge world speed record was celebrated on 28 September 2007.
The trains were reformed from eight cars to five in 1968, becoming the 3000 series SSE (Short Super Express).
The SE trains were in service from 1957 to 1968, and the SSE from 1968 to 1991.
References
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