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Odakyu 5000 series
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing· from 1969· Japanese electric multiple unit train type operated until March 2012
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Odakyu 5000 series 5257F at Izumi-Tamagawa Sta: No machine-readable author provided. Shiragiku~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims).· CC BY 2.5
- 2. Odakyu5000 5053: 高崎の鉄塊· CC BY 4.0
what is it?
The Odakyu 5000 series (小田急5000形, Odakyū 5000-gata) was a commuter electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated by the private railway operator Odakyu Electric Railway in Japan from November 1969 until March 2012.
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 57 years ago, in 1969.
- 20 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 43 years (1969–2012).
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1969
- in service from
- 1969
- retired
- 2012
- status
- retired
- number built
- 180
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing, Japan Transport Engineering Company, Nippon Sharyo
- operators
- Odakyu Electric Railway
- top speed
- 120 km/h
- power
- 135 kW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- electric system
- 1,500 V DC
- formation
- 4/6-car sets
- length
- 20 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7077248, Wikipedia: Odakyu 5000 series (1969) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.