I sure would like to take a ride around the Keikyu Railway Airport Line in Tokyo, one of the few Japanese trains that runs on standard gauge track and here looks quite like a roller coaster!
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Great Pictures. Thanks for posting.
Pretty neat! Any idea how much trackage?
Simon
Looks as if it could be: Skid Mark City!!!
Interesting...nothing like a slight drop...
A virtual stroll through wiki sort of explains the reason for the 4' 8-1/2" track. The EMU manufacturer began it's production in the 1960's under license from Budd Company.
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Thanks for the interesting post RetiredtoRail.
"Pretty neat! Any idea how much trackage?"
4 miles of trackage in and around the airport, Simon
Those are some great links, Moonman
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Not exactly the airport line but this appears to be the same standard-gauge railroad:
(forum doesn't seem to want to embed the video--link here)
Watch as this train rushes through a lot of really cramped areas during its express run. Also, note at about 14:20 in, where the engineer/motorman slows for a sharp curve while the wayside signals still show green. I don't know if this line has PTC or its equivalent (I didn't hear any alerts to the upcoming curve), but the only speed-restricting signals appear near the end of the video at what appears to be the approach to a terminal.
---PCJ
Originally Posted by RailRide:
Not exactly the airport line but this appears to be the same standard-gauge railroad:
(forum doesn't seem to want to embed the video--link here)
Watch as this train rushes through a lot of really cramped areas during its express run. Also, note at about 14:20 in, where the engineer/motorman slows for a sharp curve while the wayside signals still show green. I don't know if this line has PTC or its equivalent (I didn't hear any alerts to the upcoming curve), but the only speed-restricting signals appear near the end of the video at what appears to be the approach to a terminal.
---PCJ
The video shows the Keikyu mainline from Yokohama to Shinagawa. Most major Japanese train lines have ATS on sharp curves. This is not the Haneda airport line or airport trains. Keikyu Blue Sky Trains operate to Haneda Airport (which is the secondary Tokyo airport) using 2100 series equipment.
Just in case this video doesn't embed here is the link.
Service to the Narita, the main Tokyo international airport is either by JR East Narita Express using E259 series or Keisei Skyliner, the fastest non-Shinkansen train in Japan.
Another exotic Japanese airport train is the Nankai Electric Railway Rapi:t in Osaka.
I'm still trying to remember what the blue train in the original set of photos is.
The incline in the first series of photos looks short and steep because of the compression of distance due to the use of a telephoto lens.
Originally Posted by RetiredToRail:
The blue trains are 9100 series of the Chiba New Town Railway, a third sector Japanese railway corporation that runs over the Keisei Electric Railway and the Keikyu Electric Railway. The Chiba New Town line is part of the Hokuso Line which has some of the highest fares in Japan.
