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L0 Series
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries· from 2012· Japanese maglev train type
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Series L0: Saruno Hirobano· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. JR Central SCMaglev L0 Series Shinkansen 201408081002: Hisagi· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The L0 Series (Japanese: L（エル）0（ゼロ）系（けい）, Hepburn: Eru-zero-kei; "L zero series") is a high-speed maglev train which the Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central) has been developing and testing. JR Central plans to use the L0 series on the Chūō Shinkansen railway line between Tokyo and Osaka, which is under construction. The L0 series uses the Japanese-designed SCMaglev system.
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 14 years ago, in 2012.
- Top speed is 4.6× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 4 minutes.
- 299 m long: about 66 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 8 years (2012–2020).
high-speed train: Built for 200–350 km/h on dedicated lines, like the TGV, ICE or Shinkansen.
spec sheet
- built
- 2012
- in service from
- 2012
- retired
- 2020
- status
- retired
- number built
- 14
- kind
- high-speed train
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Nippon Sharyo, Hitachi Rail
- operators
- Central Japan Railway Company
- top speed
- 603 km/h
- power
- —
- electric system
- 33 kV AC
- formation
- Test: 5–12 cars, Operation: 16 cars
- length
- 299 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q197658, Wikipedia: L0 Series (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.