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Hokuso 7500 series
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Nippon Sharyo· from 2006· Japanese electric multiple unit train type
10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Hokuso-Series7503: MaedaAkihiko· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. Hokuso-Series7501: MaedaAkihiko· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. Hokuso 7500 series EMU 006: Tennen-Gas· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 4. Hokuso 7500 series EMU 007(cropped): Tennen-Gas· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 5. Hokuso 7500 series EMU 007: Tennen-Gas· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 6. Hokuso 7500 series EMU 008: Tennen-Gas· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 7. Hokuso 700 and 7500 2: PekePON This photo was taken with Sony DSC-T9· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 8. Hokuso 7000 and 7260 and 7500: PekePON This photo was taken with Sony DSC-T9· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 9. Hokuso 7000 and 7500: PekePON This photo was taken with Sony DSC-T9· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 10. Hokuso 7500 2006-01: PekePON This photo was taken with Sony DSC-T9· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The Hokuso 7500 series (北総鉄道7500形) is an electric multiple unit (EMU) commuter train type operated by the Hokuso Railway on the Hokuso Line in Japan since 2006.
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.
- 18 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 2006
- in service from
- 2006
- number built
- 24
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- Nippon Sharyo, Japan Transport Engineering Company
- operators
- Hokuso-Railway
- top speed
- 120 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- formation
- 8 cars per trainset
- length
- 18 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q11403941, Wikipedia: Hokuso 7500 series (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.
