Keihan 7000 series

The Keihan 7000 series is a Japanese city commuter electric multiple unit operated by the Keihan Electric Railway since September 1989.
==History==
The 7000 series sets were manufactured started in 1989 for the opening of the Keihan Ōtō branch line, which re-established a rail connection between the Keihan Main Line and Eizan Electric Railway. Initially, two six-car sets, 7001 and 7002, and one four-car set, 7003, were produced for a total of 16 cars. The first sets entered service on 11 September 1989, and were initially used on the Uji and Katano sections of the Keihan Main Line.
Starting 1991, the sets were slowly increased in length; 7003 was given two more intermediate cars to standardize the sets' length at 6 cars. Come 1992, more intermediate cars were manufactured and inserted into all three sets to make them all seven cars long. In 1993, set 7004, formed from reclassified 6000 series test vehicles and newly-built 7000 series cars, was introduced. All sets were repainted into the new Keihan corporate livery by 2011. All sets are in service and are based at Neyagawa and Yodo depots.
==Design==
The 7000 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. Car 7004 features a slightly different slant-nose design, having originally been built as a 6000 series set and assimilated into the 7000 series roster in 1993.
===Variations===
;Frontal variations
Keihan 7004 2020.jpg|Set 7004 in 2020
==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; the 7000 series sets were notable as being the first Keihan trainsets to use variable frequency drives.
==See also==
*Gallery
==References==
*Wikipedia.org
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