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M250 series
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries· from 2004· Japanese freight multiple unit type
5 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. JRF-M250-a 002: 画像の加工: 天然ガス· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. JRF-M250-FD130: Rs1421· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3. JRF-M250-FT130: Rs1421· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 4. M250 code of JR Freight: Wikimedia Commons· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 5. M250 Higashi-Totsuka 20030630: DAJF· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The M250 series (M250系, M250-kei), branded "Super Rail Cargo", is a freight electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated by Japan Freight Railway (JR Freight) in Japan. It entered service in 2004 with the objective of reducing emissions and carrying general freight for small package forwarders (such as special delivery services). The M250 series is JR Freight's first container train with distributed traction.
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 22 years ago, in 2004.
- 3.5 MW is about 41 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- 20.3 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
- Still in service after 22 years.
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 2004
- in service from
- 2004
- status
- in service
- number built
- 42
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Nippon Sharyo, Toshiba
- operators
- Japan Freight Railway Company
- top speed
- 130 km/h
- power
- 3.5 MW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- electric system
- overhead line
- formation
- 16 cars per trainset
- length
- 20.3 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q52318, Wikipedia: M250 series (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.