#5439· Toei E5000
Toei Class E5000
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing· from 2006· class of 4 Japanese electric locomotive
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Toei-subway EL-E5000: ja:利用者:↑ＰＯＮ· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. Toei-EL-E5002: LERK· CC BY 2.5
what is it?
The E5000 (E5000形) is a class of four DC electric locomotives operated by Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation (Toei) in Japan. Four locomotives (numbered E5001 to E5004) were delivered from Kawasaki in 2005 for use in hauling linear-motor powered Ōedo Line trainsets to the Magome Workshops on the Asakusa Line in Ōta, Tokyo for heavy overhaul from 2006, following the completion of the Shiodome Link Line. They are single-ended locomotives which work as permanently coupled pairs.
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.
- 1.5 MW is about 18 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 7 African elephants (~6 t each).
electric locomotive: Draws power from overhead wires or a third rail and pulls separate carriages.
spec sheet
- built
- 2006
- in service from
- 2005
- number built
- 4
- kind
- Electric
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing
- operators
- Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation
- top speed
- 70 km/h
- power
- 1.5 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- electric system
- (nominal) from overhead catenary
- wheel arrangement
- Bo′Bo′+Bo′Bo′
- weight
- 41.8 t
- Dutch name
- Toei E5000
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5357561, Wikipedia: Toei Class E5000 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.