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Seibu 3000 series
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Japan Transport Engineering Company· from 1982· electric multiple unit of Seibu Railway
7 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Seibu 3000 3001 20120708: 監視人· CC BY-SA 2.1 jp
- 2. Seibu 3000 Kokubunji Station platform 5 east end 20131116: DAJF· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3. SEIBU 3000 TYPE IN KOKUBUNJI LINE: アポロ· Public domain
- 4. Seibu 3000train: ja:User:Resident_of_higashi-fuchu· CC BY 3.0
- 5. Seibu3000 3017: TUKYU· Public domain
- 6. Seibu3000kei tokorozawa: TUKYU· Public domain
- 7. Seibu3000Series: Ippukucho· CC BY 3.0
what is it?
The Seibu 3000 series (西武3000系) was an electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated by the private railway operator Seibu Railway on commuter services in the Tokyo area of Japan from 1982 until 2014.
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 44 years ago, in 1982.
- 20 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 28 years (1982–2010).
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1982
- in service from
- 1982
- retired
- 2010
- status
- retired
- number built
- 72
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- Japan Transport Engineering Company, Seibu Railway, Tokyu Car Corporation
- operators
- Seibu Railway
- top speed
- 105 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- electric system
- 1,500 V DC
- formation
- 6/8 cars per trainset
- length
- 20 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q11628849, Wikipedia: Seibu 3000 series (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.