Keihan Electric Railway

The Keihan Electric Railway, often shortened to Keihan, is a private railway company that links Osaka, Kyoto and Shiga.
The railway's origins date back to 1910 when it was originally founded; the line that was initially opened was the first rail line to link Kyoto and Osaka. One of the company's subsidiaries, the Shin-Keihan Electric Railway was then merged into the larger Keihan company; the company used to own a line that is today the Hankyu Kyoto Line. With the power granted by the Land Transport Business Coordination Act, Keihan was forced to merge with the Hanshin Kyūkō Railway to form the Keihanshin Kyūkō Railway. In 1949, the pre-war Keihanshin operations reverted to using the Keihan name, apart from the Shin-Keihan lines; Keihanshin then changed their name to Hankyu, the name which it remains with today.
A notable trait is that most of the trains currently used by Keihan are exclusively manufactured by Kawasaki Heavy Industries, likely due to their main plant's close proximity to Kansai.
==References==
*Wikipedia.org
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