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Kumamoto Electric Railway 01 series
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Unknown builder· from 2015· Japanese electric multiple unit train type
10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. 熊本電気鉄道01系: Hidechan303· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. Kumamoto Electric Railway 01-635 20160214: Rsa· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3. Kumamoto Electric Railway 01-Kamikumamoto-station20150523: Rsa· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 4. Kumamoto Electric Railway 01-doorstep: Rsa· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 5. Tokyo Metro 01 series Kumamoto Electric Railway 136 7: hyolee2· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 6. Kumamoto Electric Railway 01 efWING: Rsa· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 7. Kumamoto Electric Railway Kamikumamoto-station 20201012: Rsa· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 8. Tokyo Metro 01 series Kumamoto Electric Railway 136 2: hyolee2· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 9. Tokyo Metro 01 series Kumamoto Electric Railway 136 3: hyolee2· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 10. Tokyo Metro 01 series Kumamoto Electric Railway 136 4: hyolee2· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The Kumamoto Electric Railway 01 series (熊本電気鉄道01形) is a DC electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated by the private railway operator Kumamoto Electric Railway in Japan, since 16 March 2015.
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 11 years ago, in 2015.
- 16 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
- 2015
- in service from
- 2015
- number built
- 4
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- Unknown builder
- operators
- Kumamoto Electric Railway
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- electric system
- 600 V DC
- formation
- 2 cars per trainset
- length
- 16 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q19921768, Wikipedia: Kumamoto Electric Railway 01 series (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.