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Meitetsu 300 series
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Nippon Sharyo· from 2002· Japanese electric multiple unit train type
9 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Meitetsu Komaki Line 300 series 2: ButuCC· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. Meitetsu Komaki Line 300 series 6: ButuCC· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. Kamiiida Line. Meitetsu300: MDXF· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. Meitetsu Komaki Line 300 series 3: ButuCC· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. Meitetsu Komaki Line 300 series 4: ButuCC· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 6. Meitetsu Komaki Line 300 series 5: ButuCC· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 7. Meitetsu Komaki Line 300 series: ButuCC· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 8. Meitetsu-300EMU: Wikimedia Commons· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 9. Meitetsu300: Bakkai· CC BY 3.0
what is it?
The Meitetsu 300 series (名鉄300系) is a commuter electric multiple unit operated by Nagoya Railroad (Meitetsu) on the Meitetsu Komaki Line and inter-running services through the Nagoya Subway Kamiiida Line in Japan since 2002. They operate alongside the Nagoya Municipal Subway 7000 series introduced in 2003.
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 24 years ago, in 2002.
- 1.4 MW is about 16 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- 19.4 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 530: 11 full city buses (~50 seats each).
- Still in service after 24 years.
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 2002
- in service from
- 2002
- status
- in service
- number built
- 32
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- Nippon Sharyo
- operators
- Nagoya Railroad
- top speed
- 100 km/h
- power
- 1.4 MW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- electric system
- (overhead catenary)
- formation
- 4 cars per trainset
- length
- 19.4 m
- capacity
- 530 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q6810380, Wikipedia: Meitetsu 300 series (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.