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125 series
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries· from 2003· Japanese electric multiple unit train type
6 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. JRW kumoha125-12: Mitsuki-2368· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. Kakogawa-Line Series125-10: MaedaAkihiko· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. JR West 125 series EMU 011: Tennen-Gas· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 4. JR West 125 series EMU 012: Tennen-Gas· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 5. JR West 125 series EMU 014: Tennen-Gas· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 6. JR West 125 series EMU 015: Tennen-Gas· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The 125 series (125系, 125-kei) is a single-car DC electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR-West) on local services in Japan since March 2003.
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 23 years ago, in 2003.
- 440 kW is about 5 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- 20.3 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 117: 2 full city buses (~50 seats each).
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 2003
- in service from
- 2003
- number built
- 18
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- Kawasaki Heavy Industries
- operators
- West Japan Railway Company
- top speed
- 120 km/h
- power
- 440 kW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- electric system
- (overhead line)
- formation
- Single car unit
- length
- 20.3 m
- capacity
- 117 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q4548438, Wikipedia: 125 series (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.