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Keio 3000 series
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Japan Transport Engineering Company· from 1962· Japanese electric multiple unit train type
6 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. InokashirasenNew3000kei: Chabata k· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. Keio 3000 series 3728F farewell: Resident of higashi-fuchu at Japanese Wikipedia· CC BY 3.0
- 3. Keio 3000 series 7 colours: Resident of higashi-fuchu at Japanese Wikipedia· CC BY 3.0
- 4. Keio 3000 skyblue: Chabata_k· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 5. 2006-01-20 Keio 3000 series: shibainu· CC BY 2.0
- 6. Keio 3000 series at Shibuya Station 2007-06-19: yoppy· CC BY 2.0
what is it?
The Keio 3000 series (京王3000系, Keiō 3000-kei) was a DC electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated by Keio Corporation on the Keio Inokashira Line in Japan from 1962 until 2011.
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 64 years ago, in 1962.
- 18.5 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 49 years (1962–2011).
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1962
- in service from
- 1962
- retired
- 2011
- status
- retired
- number built
- 145
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- Japan Transport Engineering Company
- operators
- Keio
- top speed
- 90 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- electric system
- overhead catenary
- wheel arrangement
- 2′2′+Bo′Bo′+Bo′Bo′+Bo′Bo′+2′2′
- formation
- 5 cars per trainset
- length
- 18.5 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q6383775, Wikipedia: Keio 3000 series (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.