Keio Corporation

Keio Corporation is a private railway company which operates the Keio Electric Railway, often shortened to Keio or KTR; it is the central firm of the Keio Group. The company is based in the Tokyo region and connects Shinjuku to Tokyo's western suburbs such as Chōfu, Tama and Hachiōji.
The name Keio is formed by taking a character from the places through which the railway runs; Tokyo and Hachiōji.
The railway's origins date back to 1905 when it was founded as the Nippon Electric Railway, but was renamed to become the Musashi Electric Railway the next year and then became the Keio Electric Tramway in 1910. The company's main line (today's Keio Main Line) was completed in 1933, while what is the Inokashira Line today was opened in 1933 and operated by a separate entity known as the Teito Electric Railway. The Teito Electric Railway and Odawara Kyūkō Electric Railway (today's Odakyu Electric Railway) would merge in 1940 to become Tōkyō Kyūkō Dentetsu (today's Tokyu Corporation).
Both the Inokashira and Keio Lines were spun off to another entity known as the Keiō Teito Electric Railway, or KTR, in 1947; while the "Teito" portion of the name was dropped entirely in 1998 to become the Keio Electric Railway, KTR placards can still be seen occasionally.
The Keio Corporation operates the Keio Liner services, reserved-seat services hauled by 5000 series sets. The Keio Line uses a rather strange 1,372 mm (4 ft 6 in) gauge; this gauge is shared with the Toden Arakawa Line, Tokyu Setagaya Line and Toei Shinjuku Line; the Inokashira Line uses 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) as its gauge.
==References==
*Wikipedia.org
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