#5537· Chichibu spoorweg treintype 7000
Chichibu Railway 7000 series
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Japan Transport Engineering Company· from 2009· class of 2 Japanese 3-car electric multiple units
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Chichibu Series7000-7001: MaedaAkihiko· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. Chichibu-Series7201: MaedaAkihiko· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Chichibu Railway 7000 series (秩父鉄道7000系) is an electric multiple unit (EMU) train type for local services on the Chichibu Main Line operated by the private railway operator Chichibu Railway in Japan since March 2009.
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 17 years ago, in 2009.
- 1 MW is about 12 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- 20 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 423: 8 full city buses (~50 seats each).
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 2009
- in service from
- 2009
- number built
- 6
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- Japan Transport Engineering Company
- operators
- Chichibu Railway
- top speed
- 80 km/h
- power
- 1 MW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- electric system
- 1,500 V DC
- formation
- 3 cars per trainset
- length
- 20 m
- capacity
- 423 passengers
- Dutch name
- Chichibu spoorweg treintype 7000
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5096043, Wikipedia: Chichibu Railway 7000 series (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.