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Tokyu 5000 series
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Japan Transport Engineering Company· from 1954· Electric multiple unit train type of Tokyu in Japan
8 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Tkk5000: Shellparakeet· CC0
- 2. Kumamoto Electric Railway 5000 series: MK Products· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3. Tōkyū 5000 series Body: 本屋 (Hon-ya)· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 4. Tokyu 5000 approaching Midorigaoka: Hahifuheho· CC0
- 5. Tokyu 5000 Midorigaoka: Hahifuheho· CC0
- 6. 821211sat fukushimakotsu 5020: Sasa21· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 7. Fukushima 5000 198905 Sakuramizu: Hahifuheho· CC0
- 8. 上田交通旧上田原車庫: Bergmann· CC BY 3.0
what is it?
The Tokyu 5000 series (東急5000系, Tōkyū 5000-kei) was an electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated by the private railway operator Tokyu Corporation in Japan from 1954 until 1986.
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 72 years ago, in 1954.
- 18 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 32 years (1954–1986).
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1954
- in service from
- 1954
- retired
- 1986
- status
- retired
- number built
- 105
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- Japan Transport Engineering Company, Tokyu Car Corporation
- operators
- Tokyu, Tokyu 5000 series
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- electric system
- 1,500 V DC overhead lines
- formation
- 3–6 cars per trainset
- length
- 18 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q11526942, Wikipedia: Tokyu 5000 series (1954) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.