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Kobe New Transit 2000 series
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries· from 2006· Japanese train type
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2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. 2000 Series (KNT): Hideyuki KAMON· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 2. Port Liner 2102 at Naka Koen Station: KishujiRapid· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Kobe New Transit 2000 series (神戸新交通2000型) is an automated guideway transit (AGT) vehicle used for passenger service on the Port Island Line (Port Liner) of the Kobe New Transit. The trains were introduced on February 2, 2006, to coincide with the extension of the Port Island Line to the newly opened Kobe Airport. The series is a successor to the 8000 series trains that ran on Port Liner from the line's opening in 1981 until November 2009.
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 20 years ago, in 2006.
- 660 kW is about 8 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- 50.4 m long: about 11 cars parked nose to tail.
- Still in service after 20 years.
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 2006
- in service from
- 2006
- status
- in service
- number built
- 114
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing
- operators
- Kobe New Transit
- top speed
- 60 km/h
- power
- 660 kW
- gauge
- 1,740 mm broad gauge
- electric system
- 600 V 60 Hz 3-phase AC third rail
- formation
- 6 cars per trainset
- length
- 50.4 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q6424322, Wikipedia: Kobe New Transit 2000 series (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.