Shin-Keisei Electric Railway

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Linemap of Shin-Keisei Electric Railway
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Shin-Keisei Electric Railway mon

The Template:Nihongo was a private railway in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. It connects Narashino and Matsudo. It was a subsidiary of Keisei Electric Railway.

It also operated the following bus company subsidiaries.

  • Funabashi Shin-Keisei Bus
  • Matsudo Shin-Keisei Bus

Lines

Template:Main articles The company operated one line, the Template:Convert Shin-Keisei Line, between Matsudo and Keisei Tsudanuma.<ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Rolling stock

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All trains were based at Kunugiyama and Tsudanuma Depots.

Former rolling stock

  • 800 series (1971 – July 2010)
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History

After World War II, the ownership of the right-of-way of an uncompleted Imperial Japanese Army military railway line was transferred to Keisei.Template:Citation needed Shin-Keisei was established as a subsidiary of Keisei on 23 October 1946 to construct and operate the line.<ref name="terada2013">Template:Cite book</ref> The first section of the line, Template:Convert from Template:STN to Template:STN, was opened on 27 December 1947, with a track gauge of Template:RailGauge and electrified at 1,500 V DC overhead.<ref name="terada2013"/> The line was regauged to Template:RailGauge in October 1953, and the entire line was completed as a single-track line by 21 April 1955.<ref name="terada2013"/> In August 1959, the line was again regauged, this time to Template:RailGauge to match the standard gauge used by Keisei Electric Railway.<ref name="terada2013"/>

In June 2014, the company unveiled a new corporate image with a new corporate logo and "gentle pink" corporate colour scheme and train livery.<ref name="shinkeisei20140530">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The company's entire fleet of trains was scheduled to be reliveried in the new colour scheme, with the first train, an 8800 series set entering service from 29 August 2014.<ref name="railfan20140715">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Merger with Keisei Electric Railway

In an announcement made on 31 October 2023, Shin-Keisei Electric Railway revealed that it would be merged into the parent Keisei Electric Railway. The acquisition was completed on 1 April 2025, and the line was renamed as the Keisei Matsudo Line.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The merger also resulted in the bus company subsidiaries being acquired by parent company, Keisei Electric Railway.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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