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Nankai 9000 series
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Japan Transport Engineering Company· from 1985· Japanese electric multiple unit train type
10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Nankai 9508 at Shin-Imamiya Station: KishujiRapid· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. Nankai9000 renovated room: ひふみんぬ· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. Nankai 9000 Series 9501F Renewal: NAKAI· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. Nankai 9000 Series 9509F: NAKAI· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. EF15174+Nankai9000 HanwaFreightline 19850319: Olegushka· CC0
- 6. EF6092+Nankai10000+Nankai9000 HanwaFreightLine 19861021: Olegushka· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 7. Nankai9000 9513F: 日根野· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 8. Nankai9000 renovated LCD: ひふみんぬ· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 9. Nankai9000keisyanai: 山本輝雄 本人が撮影。· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 10. Nankai9000series door: ひふみんぬ· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Nankai 9000 series (南海9000系) is an electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated by the private railway operator Nankai Electric Railway in Japan since 1985.
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 41 years ago, in 1985.
- 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
- 1985
- in service from
- 1985
- number built
- 32
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- Japan Transport Engineering Company
- operators
- Nankai Electric Railway
- top speed
- 110 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- electric system
- 1,500 V DC
- formation
- 4/6 cars per trainset
- length
- 20.7 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q11408132, Wikipedia: Nankai 9000 series (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.