700 Series Shinkansen

The Shinkansen 700 series (Japanese新 干线700系 电车, Shinkansen 700 -kei densha ) is a Japanese bullet train. The jointly developed by JR Central and JR West train from those of the Shinkansen 300 series a more comfortable ride, but compared with the more powerful Shinkansen Series 500 cheaper. From the 700 series, the three variants C, B ​​and E was determined by the pre-series C0, built to replace the 0 series and 100 series.

Variants

Pre-series C0

The 16 -part series of pre-series 700-9000 was delivered on 28 September 1997 JR Central and tested by December 1998. He lay back around 400,000 kilometers. In the test drive the train went on the San'yo Shinkansen at a speed of up to 300 km / h on the Tōkaidō Shinkansen and to 310 km / h. To produce the variant E, the train was rebuilt as 8- piece train and checked. After completion of the testing of the train until 28 September 1999, the later production version was adapted and put into operation since October 1999 as set C1.

Variant C

The 16 - car trains were ordered by the variant C JR Central and delivered between 1999 and 2005. They were first used for Nozomi trains between Tokyo and Hakata. The commercial use began on 13 March 1999 with three pairs of trains daily. With the delivery of other trains also the slower train type Hikari is operated with the 700 series since 2000. Since 2009, no trains are more than Nozomi used because these services were taken over by the equipped with tilting technology series N700.

The acceleration of the trains was a long time by the command to 0.444 ... m / s ² limited. Only one executed between October 2008 and June 2009 conversion allowed the use of the technically maximum possible acceleration of 0.555 ... m / s ².

Interior of a car with non- reservable seats

Variant E

The 8- car trains of variant E are by JR West for the train type introduced in 2000, Hikari Rail Star on the route Osaka - Hakata used. Three cars have non- reservable seated, the remaining cars are deprived travelers with reserved seats. In cars 2 cars and 6 smoking is allowed.

Interior car 1 with non- reservable seats

Interior car 6 with reservable seats

Sitting in car 6

Variant B

The 16 - car trains of variant B were procured by JR West. They are used since 2002 in Hikari service where they replaced the trains of the Shinkansen 100 series.

Furniture of the second class

Seating first class Green Car

Variant 700T

For operation in Taiwan as a designated Series 700T variant was derived from the 700 series. The first train was introduced in early 2004 and shipped on May 18, 2004 by Kobe towards Taiwan. The twelve -car trains have 3 2 seating with 989 seats, including 66 in the first class.

Technology

The 16 - car trainsets of the variants B and C consist of two non-driven end and middle wagons, and twelve intermediate cars driven. They reach a starting acceleration 2 km / h per second. The designed in lightweight trains have an axle load of 11.39 t. The aerodynamically designed head shape of the air resistance of the 300 series could be reduced by about 15 percent and energy consumption can be reduced by about eight percent.

The 8- car trainsets of the variant E consist of two non-powered end cars and four cars driven means.

In contrast to the long pointed head shape of the 500 series a shorter one was used on a duckbill rich top shape for the 700 series. The respect of the tunnel pop equivalent form provides more usable interior in the end cars available.

Compared to the 300 series of the interior was made ​​more generous. Here, the central aisle of 57 cm was widened to 60 cm and increased the ceiling from 2135 to 2200 mm.

Procurement price

A 16 -piece train 700 series costs about 4 billion yen, which is about 20 % less than the 500 series

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