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Semboku 7000 series
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing· from 1996· Japanese train type
9 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Senboku-Series7506: MaedaAkihiko· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. Semboku7000 7551F New Color: にぶさま· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. Semboku7000 FRONTIER: 日根野· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. Semboku 7000 7020 New Color Connected: にぶさま· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. Semboku 7000 series 01: JEXP· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 6. Semboku 7000: 日根野 (Hineno)· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 7. Semboku Rapid 7000 series Namba Station: ...some guy· CC BY 2.0
- 8. Semboku7000 FRONTIER side: 日根野· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 9. Semboku7000series Underfloor equipments: ひふみんぬ· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Semboku 7000 series (泉北7000系, Senboku 7000-kei) is an electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated by the private railway operator Nankai Electric Railway. Sets introduced in 2007 are designated as 7020 series.
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 30 years ago, in 1996.
- 20.8 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 157: 3 full city buses (~50 seats each).
- Still in service after 30 years.
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1996
- in service from
- 1996
- status
- in service
- number built
- 44
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing, Kawasaki Heavy Industries
- operators
- Nankai Electric Railway
- top speed
- 120 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- electric system
- 1,500 V DC overhead wire
- formation
- 2/4/6 cars per trainset
- length
- 20.8 m
- capacity
- 157 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q11441417, Wikipedia: Semboku 7000 series (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.