Keikyu Corporation

Keikyu Corporation is a private railway company which operates the Keihin Electric Express Railway, also known as the Keihin Kyūkō Electric Railway and often shortened to Keikyu. The company is based in the inner Tokyo region and connects Tokyo to Kawasaki, Yokohama, Yokosuka and areas around the Miura Peninsula in Kanagawa.
The name Keikyu is formed from the Keihin Kyūkō portion of the railway's name, with Keihin being formed from the last characters of the words "Tokyo" (last character can alternatively be read as Kei) and "Yokohama" (last character can alternatively be read as Hin).
The railway's origins date back to 1898, but the current company's origins date back to 1948. The Keikyu Corporation is known to have pioneered the Kantō Region's first electric train and was the third operator to use electricity to power its trains in the entire country.
Trains on the Keikyu Main Line have a top speed of 120 km/h (75 mph). This makes it the third-fastest private railway operator in the Tokyo Region; only the Tsukuba Express and the Keisei Skyliner are faster.
==References==
*Wikipedia.org
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