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| EMU Chiba Newtown Railway 9200 series travels on the Hokuso line |
I have already uploaded more than 1,300 posts in this blog over a nine-year period. I thought that all the existing train models in the Tokyo metropolitan area had already been introduced to you here, but I was wrong. I recently found that there are still some more models I haven't shown you yet. The introduction of trains in the Tokyo metropolitan area is almost endless.
The EMU Chiba Newton Railway 9200 series is a rare model. Only one set (eight cars) was built by Nippon Sharyo in 2013. The technical specification of the 9200 series is same as those of the Keisei 3000 and the Hokuso 7500 series. The major difference between these three models is the color of the body stripes. The Chiba Newtown 9200 series has light blue and yellow colored stripes. The Keisei 3000 series has dark-pink and blue-colored stripes, while the Hokuso 7500 series has blue and light-blue colored stripes on their stainless-steel bodies. I like the Chiba Newtown Railway 9200 series best as it's vivid.
Incidentally, Chiba Newtown Railway is a local railway company in Chiba Prefecture. This company has a 12.5-kilometer-long section between Komuro and Inba Nihon-idai stations. The track is double and electrified. The gauge size is 1,435 mm. The electric system is 1,500 V overhead. Chiba Newtown Railway's train is directly operated onto the Hokuso, Keisei, Toei-Asakusa, and Keikyu lines. All the trains on the Chiba Newtown Railway are operated by Hokuso Railway Company. It's a bit of a complicated operating system, isn't it!
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| EMU Chiba Newtown Railway 9200 series arrives at Komuro station |