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Chichibu Railway 5000 series
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Unknown builder· from 1999· Japanese electric multiple unit train type
7 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Chichibu-railway Series5000-5203: MaedaAkihiko· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. Chichibu railway 5203 20110606: ja:User:DD51612· CC BY 3.0
- 3. Chichibu 5000 series set 5002 Yorii Station 20030826: DAJF· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. Chichibu Railway 5000: Sui-setz· Public domain
- 5. KD-70-Chichibu-Railway-5000series-01: Rs1421· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 6. KD-70-Chichibu-Railway-5000series-02: Rs1421· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 7. KD-70-Chichibu-Railway-5000series-03: Rs1421· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The Chichibu Railway 5000 series (秩父鉄道5000系) is an electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated by the private railway operator Chichibu Railway on Chichibu Main Line local services 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 27 years ago, in 1999.
- 20 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
- 1999
- in service from
- 1999
- number built
- 12
- 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 Q5096040, Wikipedia: Chichibu Railway 5000 series (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.