Keihan 7200 series

The Keihan 7200 series is a Japanese city commuter electric multiple unit operated by the Keihan Electric Railway since May 1995.
==History==
The 7200 series sets were manufactured in 1995 to increase transportation capacity of the Keihan Main Line. A total of twenty-three cars were manufactured by Kawasaki Heavy Industries in Hyōgo to supplement the 7000 series trains also operating on the same lines. Initially, two 8-car sets were built, 7201 and 7202; both entered service on 1 May 1995. These were sometimes also formed into 5-car units due to special equipment in some of the cars which allowed the train to still be operable after the removal of three of the 8 cars. An additional 7-car set, 7203, was later produced and entered service in December 1995.
The trains were repainted into the new Keihan corporate livery in 2011. The two 8-car sets were subsequently reformed into 7-car sets from 2015 to 2016 and thus can no longer operate as 5-car sets; the two removed cars were subsequently added to 10000 series sets 10001 and 10002, along with some cars from various 9000 series sets. All three sets remain in service.
==Design==
The 7200 series use a conventional squared-off design with dual top-mounted headlights as is typical of many Keihan electric multiple units. These feature a simple design. The headlights have since been changed to LED fixtures. As the 7200 series sets are largely based on the 7000 series cars, their exterior design is largely identical.
==Specifications==
Construction of the cars is of aluminum alloy. Cars are 18.7 meters long. All sets use Tōyō Denki Seizō gate turn-off thyristors which produce a raunchy scraping noise; as these were largely based on the 7000 series their underbody equipment is nearly identical.
==See also==
*Gallery
==References==
*Wikipedia.org
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