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Keisei AE series
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Nippon Sharyo· from 2010· Japanese electric multiple unit train type operated since 2010
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10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Keisei-Type-AE: MaedaAkihiko· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. Descriptionkeiseiae: Hellojinujinu· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. Keisei AE series (2009) AE1-1: PekePON ( talk )· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 4. Keisei AE series (2009) AE1-2: PekePON ( talk )· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 5. Keisei AE series (2009) AE1-3: PekePON ( talk )· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 6. Keisei AE series (2009) AE1-4: PekePON ( talk )· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 7. Keisei AE series (2009) AE1-5: PekePON ( talk )· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 8. Keisei AE series (2009) AE1-6: PekePON ( talk )· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 9. Keisei AE series (2009) AE1-7: PekePON ( talk )· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 10. Keisei AE series (2009) AE1-8 front mask1: PekePON ( talk )· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The Keisei AE series (京成AE形) is a DC electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated by the private railway operator Keisei Electric Railway on Skyliner limited express services to and from Narita International Airport in Japan via the Keisei Narita Airport Line. The first set was delivered in May 2009, and entered service in July 2010, replacing the Keisei AE100 series EMUs previously used on these services.
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 16 years ago, in 2010.
- Top speed is 1.2× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 15 minutes.
- 4.2 MW is about 49 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- 19.5 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 398: 8 full city buses (~50 seats each).
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 2010
- in service from
- 2010
- number built
- 72
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- Nippon Sharyo, Japan Transport Engineering Company
- designer
- Kansai Yamamoto
- operators
- Keisei Electric Railway
- top speed
- 160 km/h
- power
- 4.2 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- BoBo+BoBo+BoBo+BoBo+22+22+BoBo+BoBo
- formation
- 8 cars per trainset
- length
- 19.5 m
- capacity
- 398 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5364058, Wikipedia: Keisei AE series (2009) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.