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Chichibu Railway 300 series
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Unknown builder· from 1959· class of 2 Japanese 3-car electric multiple units
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Chichibu-300: Cassiopeia sweet· Public domain
what is it?
The Chichibu Railway 300 series (秩父鉄道300系) was an electric multiple unit (EMU) train type for Chichibu-ji express services on the Chichibu Main Line operated by the private railway operator Chichibu Railway in Japan.
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 67 years ago, in 1959.
- 20 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 38 years (1959–1997).
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1959
- in service from
- 1959
- retired
- 1997
- status
- retired
- number built
- 2
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- Unknown builder
- operators
- Chichibu Railway
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- electric system
- 1,500 V DC
- formation
- 3 cars per trainset
- length
- 20 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5096039, Wikipedia: Chichibu Railway 300 series (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.