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Meitetsu 5000 series
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Unknown builder· from 1955· Japanese electric multiple unit train type
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Change-Meitetsu5000mainte: Cassiopeia_sweet· Public domain
- 2. Meitetsu5000 TokonameKosoku JinguMae 19810726: Olegushka· CC0
what is it?
The Meitetsu 5000 series (名鉄5000系) was an EMU type operated by Nagoya Railroad (Meitetsu) in Japan between 1955 and 1986.
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 71 years ago, in 1955.
- Served for 31 years (1955–1986).
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1955
- in service from
- 1955
- retired
- 1986
- status
- retired
- number built
- 30
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- Unknown builder
- operators
- Nagoya Railroad
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- electric system
- 1,500 V DC
- formation
- 4 cars per trainset
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q11415677, Wikipedia: Meitetsu 5000 series (1955) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.