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) train type operated by Tokyo subway operator Tokyo Metro on the

Tokyo Metro Tozai Line The is a rapid transit line in Tokyo and Chiba Prefecture, Japan, owned and operated by Tokyo Metro. Its name translates to "''East-West Line"''. The line runs between Nakano in Nakano-ku, Tokyo and Nishi-Funabashi in Funabashi, Chiba Pre ...

in Tokyo, Japan, since May 2010.

Design

Based on the earlier

Tokyo Metro 05 series The is an electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated on the Tokyo Metro Tozai Line and Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line Ayase Branch in Japan by the subway operator Tokyo Metro. Some sets have also been shipped to Indonesia, where they operate o ...

(13th batch) and

Tokyo Metro 10000 series The is an electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated on the Yurakucho and Fukutoshin subway lines of Tokyo Metro in Japan since 2006. Design The trains are manufactured by Hitachi with aluminium bodies to its "A-train" concept. The 10 ...

trains, the 15000 series trains have wider doors ( as opposed to ) to speed up boarding and alighting at stations during rush-hour periods. Tokyo Metro news release
オールワイドドアの「15000系」新型車両を投入します (New 15000 series trains to be introduced with wide doors), 16 June 2009)
Retrieved on 17 June 2009. File:Tokyo Metro 15101 Fukagawa 20100417.jpg, Exterior view at Fukagawa Depot in April 2010

Operations

The 15000 series trains are used on

inter-running services, to and from on the JR East Chuo-Sobu Line in the west, on the Toyo Rapid Railway Line and on the Chuo-Sobu Line in the east. The 15000 series trains replaced the first batch of the 05 series trains, which have been in service since 1988.

Formation

, the fleet consists of 13 ten-car sets, numbered 51 to 63, and formed as shown below, with car 1 at the Nishi-Funabashi (west) end. Cars 2 and 8 each have 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 ...

. Car 5 has one single-arm pantograph.

Interior

Passenger accommodation consists of longitudinal bench seating throughout, with six-person seats between the doors, and two-person seats at the car ends. Passenger information is provided by pairs of 17-inch

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information screens above each doorway. File:Tokyo-Metro Series15000 Inside.jpg, Interior view File:Tokyo-Metro Series15000 Priority-seat.jpg, Priority seats File:Tokyo-Metro Series15000 Inside Door.jpg, Interior view showing wide doorway File:Tokyo-Metro Series15000 Inside LCD.jpg, LCD passenger information display File:Tokyo-Metro Series15000 Cab.jpg, Driver's cab of the 15000 series

History

The first set was delivered from

Hitachi () is a Japanese multinational corporation, multinational Conglomerate (company), conglomerate corporation headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. It is the parent company of the Hitachi Group (''Hitachi Gurūpu'') and had formed part of the Ni ...

Kudamatsu is a city in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. , the city has an estimated population of 55,119, with 24,392 households and a population density of 616 persons per km2. The total area is 89.44 km2. The city was founded on November 3, 1939, being ...

factory in February 2010. The first 15000 series sets entered revenue service on 7 May 2010. Thirteen sets (15101 to 15113) were delivered by 2011, with a further three sets scheduled to be delivered during fiscal 2016.

References

External links

Tokyo Metro 15000 series information
{{DEFAULTSORT:Tokyo Metro 15000 Series Electric multiple units of Japan 15000 series Train-related introductions in 2010 Hitachi multiple units 1500 V DC multiple units of Japan