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E217 series
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Japan Transport Engineering Company· from 1994· Japanese electric multiple unit train type
10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Series-E217 Y7: MaedaAkihiko· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. Series-E217 Y101: MaedaAkihiko· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. Series-E217 Green-car-1F: MaedaAkihiko· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. Series-E217 Green-car-2F: MaedaAkihiko· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. 2008-03-20 JR East E217 at Kinshichō Station: nubobo· CC BY 2.0
- 6. E217 pan: Sakurayama 7· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 7. E217-totuka-s.t: morizou· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 8. 東海道線E217 ～Tokaido‐line E217 - panoramio: HOSTで巡査部長(硫黄島観賞)· CC BY 3.0
- 9. JR East E217 series EMU 006: Tennen-Gas· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 10. JRE-EF64-1032 Nambu Line E217 Y-49 20210303: Rsa· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The E217 series (E217系) was a suburban electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East) in the Kantō region of Japan from 1994 to 2025.
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 32 years ago, in 1994.
- 1.5 MW is about 18 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- 19.5 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 31 years (1994–2025).
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1994
- in service from
- 1994
- retired
- 2025
- status
- retired
- number built
- 745
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- Japan Transport Engineering Company, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, East Japan Railway Company
- operators
- East Japan Railway Company
- top speed
- 120 km/h
- power
- 1.5 MW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- electric system
- 1,500 V DC overhead catenary
- formation
- 4/11 cars per trainset
- length
- 19.5 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q844806, Wikipedia: E217 series (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.