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E127 series
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by East Japan Railway Company· from 1995· Japanese DC electric multiple unit train type
10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Series-E127-V13: MaedaAkihiko· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. JRE Series-E127-V12 Joetsu-line: MaedaAkihiko· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. JRE Series-E127-0 V1: MaedaAkihiko· CC0
- 4. Series-E127-100: MaedaAkihiko· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. JR東日本E127系電車: 延岡· CC0
- 6. 南武支線E127系: カキカッククロ· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 7. E127 Niigata 20080526: DAJF· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 8. E127-0 Joetsu-line: MaedaAkihiko· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 9. E127v4: 羽吹舞· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 10. Echigo tokimeki railway ET127kei: Toshinori baba This photo was taken with Nikon D3100· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The E127 series (E127系) is a DC electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated on local services by East Japan Railway Company (JR East) in Japan since 1995, and also by the third-sector railway operator Echigo Tokimeki Railway since March 2015 as the ET127 series.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 31 years ago, in 1995.
- 20 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Still in service after 31 years.
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1995
- in service from
- 1995
- status
- in service
- number built
- 50
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- East Japan Railway Company, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Japan Transport Engineering Company
- operators
- East Japan Railway Company
- top speed
- 110 km/h
- power
- 120 kW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- electric system
- (overhead catenary)
- formation
- 2 cars per trainset
- length
- 20 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5322339, Wikipedia: E127 series (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.