The is a class of four DC
electric locomotive
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s operated by
Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation
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(Toei) in Japan.
Four locos (numbered E5001 to E5004) were delivered from
Kawasaki
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*Kawasaki, Kanagawa, a Japanese city
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**Kawasaki Stadium, a multi-sport stadium
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in 2005 for use in hauling linear-motor powered
Ōedo Line trainsets to the Magome Workshops on the
Asakusa Line in
Ōta, Tokyo
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, the ward has an estimated population of 716,413, with 379,199 households and a population density of 12,048.65 persons per km2. The total area ...
for heavy overhaul from 2006, following the completion of the Shiodome Link Line.
They are single-ended locomotives which work as permanently coupled pairs.
References
Electric locomotives of Japan
Bo-Bo locomotives
1500 V DC locomotives
Toei Subway
Railway locomotives introduced in 2006
Kawasaki locomotives
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