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Dual voltage (20000 VAC/1500 VDC) EMU 415 series in its Nanao Line livery resting at Kanazawa station on the Hokuriku Main Line. This type is equivalent to series 115 common on the DC electrified...
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Old 103 series is still well used on the Musashino Line, a half-circular line that covers Tokyo's suburban areas, taken at Maihama station on the Keiyo Line.
August 2001, by Hiroshi Naito.
Newly opened Maihama Resort...
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Quietly running along a modern elevated track is a single unit diesel rail car of the Tokai Kotsu (transport) in Nagoya, a 3rd sector company partly owned by JR Tokai. This railway, mostly opened...
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On a fine spring day, a 201 series train in the Chuo Line rapid service snakes through downtown Tokyo towards Ochanomizu. On a viaduct in the distance is a yellow liveried Sobu Line local.
April...
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This specialy liveried EMU is 103 series introduced in accordance with the opening of Universal Studio Japan in Osaka. These trains shuttle between Nishi-Kujo and Sakurajima on the JR Sakurajima Line providing access to...
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Apart from Tokyo's remaining municipal Arakawa Line, the Hokkaido port city of Hakodate's 10.9 kms is the only 4 foot 6 inch (1372 mm) tram operation in Japan. Shown in this shot from February...
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Tokyu Toyoko Line series 9000 at Myorenji in Yokohama on an unusually snowy day.
By Brian Walker, January 2001.
950-made vintage tram car #82, type 80, of Tokyu Setagaya Line, one of the last remaining two...
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Bullet train series 500 zips through Shizuoka yard heading for Tokyo, with Mt. Fuji in the background.
January 1st 2001, by Hiroshi Naito.
Commuter train series 103 at Anzen station on the JR Tsurumi Line situated...