Shin-Keisei 8000 series


The Shin-Keisei 8000 series is an electric multiple unit train type operated by the private railway operator Shin-Keisei Electric Railway on the Shin-Keisei Line in Chiba Prefecture, Japan, since 1978.

Formations

, the fleet consists of three six-car sets based at Kunugiyama Depot with four motored intermediate cars and two driving trailer cars, formed as shown below, with the odd-numbered Tc car at the Tsudanuma end.
DesignationTcM1M2M1M2Tc
Numbering85xx80xx80xx80xx80xx85xx

The first set was introduced in November 1978. Eight more sets were introduced between 1979 and 1985.

Livery variations

Trainsets introduced from 1979 onward carried what subsequently became known as the Shin-Keisei "standard livery", consisting of beige with a brown stripe below the windows. This livery was also used on the 8800 series trains introduced in 1986. From December 2006, the trains were repainted into a modified version of this livery with the brown stripes replaced by maroon stripes, coinciding with the start of through-running to and from the Keisei Chiba Line.
The first set to receive Shin-Keisei's new pink and white corporate livery introduced in 2014 was 8518 in April 2017.
In 2017, one of the last three 8000 series sets remaining in service, 8512, was specially repainted into the standard livery introduced in 1979.