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Echizen Railway 7000 series
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Unknown builder· from 2013· Japanese DC electric multiple unit train type
10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Ecizen-7002: 藻南官舎前· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. Echizen Railway 7001: ButuCC· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. Echizen Railway 7011 and Fukui Railway F1001: 継之助· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 4. Echizen Railway MC7003 at Fukui Station 20240501: Suikotei· CC BY 4.0
- 5. Echizen Railway MC7004 at Fukui Station 20240501: Suikotei· CC BY 4.0
- 6. Echizen Railway MC7009 at Matsuoka Station 20240501: Suikotei· CC BY 4.0
- 7. Echizen Railway MC7011 at Awara-Yunomachi Station 20240501: Suikotei· CC BY 4.0
- 8. Echizen Railway MC7012 at Fukui Station 20240501: Suikotei· CC BY 4.0
- 9. Echizen Railway MC7012 at Fukui-guchi Station 20240501: Suikotei· CC BY 4.0
- 10. Echizen Railway TC7006 at Eiheijiguchi Station 20240501: Suikotei· CC BY 4.0
what is it?
The 7000 series (7000形) is a DC electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated in Japan by the third sector railway operator Echizen Railway since February 2013. Converted from former 119 series EMUs operated by JR Central until 2012, a total of six 2-car sets are scheduled to be introduced between fiscal 2012 and 2013, replacing the older 1101 series, 2101 series, and 2201 series trains.
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 13 years ago, in 2013.
- 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
- 2013
- in service from
- 2013
- number built
- 12
- kind
- Electric multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- Unknown builder
- operators
- Echizen Railway
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- electric system
- 600 V DC
- formation
- 2 cars per trainset
- length
- 20 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q12056910, Wikipedia: Echizen Railway 7000 series (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.