#3373
Odakyu 3000 series SE
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Nippon Sharyo· from 1957· limited express electric multiple unit of Odakyu Electric Railway and Ōigawa Railway
4 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Odakyu Romancecar SE 3000 series and GSE 70000 series Ebina depot 20190526: Cfktj1596· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. Odakyu Romancecar SE 3000 series Ebina depot 20190526: Cfktj1596· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. Oigawa3000-2: Tamurono157· CC BY 3.0
- 4. 大井川3000: Tamrono157 at Japanese Wikipedia· CC BY 3.0
what is it?
The Odakyu 3000 series (小田急3000形, Odakyū sanzen-gata) or SE (Super Express), later becoming SSE (Short Super Express), was a "Romancecar" electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated by the Odakyu Electric Railway in the Tokyo area of Japan. It was the recipient of the inaugural Blue Ribbon Award presented by the Japan Railfan Club in 1958.
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 69 years ago, in 1957.
- Top speed is 1.1× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Weighs about as much as 24 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 16 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 348: 7 full city buses (~50 seats each).
- Served for 34 years (1957–1991).
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1957
- in service from
- 1957
- retired
- 1991
- status
- retired
- number built
- 32
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- Nippon Sharyo, Kawasaki Heavy Industries
- operators
- Odakyu Electric Railway, Ōigawa Railway
- top speed
- 148 km/h
- power
- 100 kW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- electric system
- 1,500 V DC
- formation
- 8 cars per set (initial), 5 cars per set (from 1968)
- length
- 16 m
- weight
- 147 t
- capacity
- 348 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1576868, Wikipedia: Odakyu 3000 series SE (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.