#5089
Tobu 30000 series
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Japan Transport Engineering Company· from 1997· Electric multiple unit train type operated by Tobu Railway in Japan
10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Tobu-Series30000 31604: MaedaAkihiko· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. Tobu 30000 31407 Tochigi 20131109: 監視人 (Kanshinin)· CC BY-SA 2.1 jp
- 3. Tobu 30000 31613 Tochigi 20120505: 監視人 (Kanshinin)· CC BY-SA 2.1 jp
- 4. Tobu 30000 series DT Line 20180601: ぬべすこん· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. Tobu 30000 series EMU 011: Tennen-Gas· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 6. Tobu 30000 series EMU 012: Tennen-Gas· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 7. Tobu 30000 series EMU 013: Tennen-Gas· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 8. Tobu 30000 series EMU 015: Tennen-Gas· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 9. Tobu 30000 series Tokyu Den-en-toshi Line 20170721: Cfktj1596· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 10. Tobu 30000 Series: T. Hanami· CC0
what is it?
The Tobu 30000 series (東武30000系, Tōbu 30000-kei) is a DC electric multiple unit (EMU) commuter train type operated by the private railway operator Tobu Railway in Japan since 1997. Initially formed as six-car and four-car sets, sets are mostly formed as permanently coupled ten-car formations since 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 29 years ago, in 1997.
- 20 m long: about 4 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
- 1997
- in service from
- 1997
- number built
- 150
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- Japan Transport Engineering Company, Subaru Corporation, Tokyu Car Corporation, Alna Sharyo
- operators
- Tobu Railway
- top speed
- 120 km/h
- power
- 190 kW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- electric system
- 1,500 V DC overhead line
- formation
- 10/6/4 cars per trainset
- length
- 20 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7811748, Wikipedia: Tobu 30000 series (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.