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Chiba New Town Railway 9000 series
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Nippon Sharyo· from 1984· Japanese electric multiple unit train type
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Chiba New Town Railway 9000 series 20070812: Lover of Romance· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The Chiba New Town Railway 9000 series (千葉ニュータウン鉄道9000形) was a commuter electric multiple unit (EMU) train type formerly owned by the third-sector railway company Chiba New Town Railway and operated by the Hokuso Railway on the Hokuso Line in Japan from 1984 until 20 March 2017.
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 42 years ago, in 1984.
- 18 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 33 years (1984–2017).
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1984
- in service from
- 1984
- retired
- 2017
- status
- retired
- number built
- 16
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- Nippon Sharyo
- operators
- Hokusō Line, Hokuso-Railway
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- electric system
- 1,500 V DC
- formation
- 8 cars (formerly 6 cars) per trainset
- length
- 18 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q17221125, Wikipedia: Chiba New Town Railway 9000 series (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.