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Nankai 6000 series
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Japan Transport Engineering Company· from 1962· Japanese electric multiple unit train type
10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Nankai6000 6017F: 日根野· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. Nankai Series6000-6020: MaedaAkihiko· CC0
- 3. Nankai 6000 series 01: JEXP· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 4. 6000 Series EMU Nankai Electric Railway: Samson Ng . D201@EAL· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. 6000 Series EMU: Samson Ng . D201@EAL· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 6. EF15174+Nankai6000 HanwaFreightline 19850723: Olegushka· CC0
- 7. Nankai 6000 6028F No Paint at Tengachaya Sta: にぶさま· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 8. Nankai 6000 series 011: Tennen-Gas· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 9. Nankai 6000 series 2009-10-05 01: 船 長· CC0
- 10. Nankai 6000 series 2009-10-05: 船 長· CC0
what is it?
The Nankai 6000 series (南海6000系) is an electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated by the private railway operator Nankai Electric Railway in Japan since 1962.
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.
- 20.7 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
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
- number built
- 50
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- Japan Transport Engineering Company
- operators
- Nankai Electric Railway
- top speed
- 100 km/h
- power
- 145 kW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- electric system
- 600/1,500 V DC overhead wire
- formation
- 2/4 cars per trainset
- length
- 20.7 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q11408128, Wikipedia: Nankai 6000 series (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.