#jr tokai

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JoJo's JR Tokai Collab

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60 Years of the Tokaido Shinkansen!

On 1 October 1964, a railway line like no other opened. Connecting Tôkyô and Ôsaka, paralleling an existing main line, the Tôkaidô New Trunk Line had minimal curves, lots of bridges, zero level crossings. Striking white and blue electric multiple units, with noses shaped like bullets some would say, started zooming between the two cities as at the unheard-of speed of 210 km/h.

This was the start of the Shinkansen, inaugurating the age of high-speed rail.

The trains, with noses actually inspired by the aircraft of the time, originally didn't have a name, they were just "Shinkansen trains", as they couldn't mingle with other types anyway due to the difference in gauge between the Shinkansen (standard gauge, 1435 mm between rails) and the rest of the network (3'6" gauge, or 1067 mm between rails). The class would officially become the "0 Series" when new trains appeared in the 1980s, first the very similar 200 Series for the second new line, the Tôhoku Shinkansen, then the jet-age 100 Series. Yes, the 200 came first, as it was decided that trains heading North-East from Tôkyô would be given even first numbers, and trains heading West would have odd first numbers (0 is even, but never mind).

Hence the next new type to appear on the Tôkaidô Shinkansen was the 300 Series (second from left), designed by the privatised JR Tôkai to overcome some shortcomings of the line. Indeed, the curves on the Tôkaidô were still too pronounced to allow speeds to be increased, while all other new lines had been built ready for 300 km/h operations. But a revolution in train design allowed speeds to be raised from 220 km/h in the 80s to 285 km/h today, with lightweight construction (on the 300), active suspension (introduced on the 700 Series, left) and slight tilting (standard on the current N700 types).

Examples of five generations of train used on the Tôkaidô Shinkansen are preserved at JR Tôkai's museum, the SCMaglev & Railway Park, in Nagoya, with the N700 prototype lead car outdoors. It's striking to see how far high-speed train technology has come in Japan in 60 years. The network itself covers the country almost end-to-end, with a nearly continuous line from Kyûshû to Hokkaidô along the Pacific coast (no through trains at Tôkyô), and four branch lines inland and to the North coast, one of which recently got extended.

東海道新幹線、お誕生日おめでおう！

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20240817 Southern Shinshu 5 by Bong Grit Via Flickr: 橋の下はこんな感じの通路のような遊歩道みたいになっています。横はフェンスなので景色が見えますが、下は不透明なので高いところが苦手なあたしも怖くはなかったです。 Photo taken at Tenryukyo-Ohashi bridge, Iida city, Nagano pref.

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JR東海 X'MAS EXPRESS CMs

[sofiaflorina2021]

Happy 60th Anniversary of Shinkansen

Happy 60th anniversary of Shinkansen (1 October 1964 - 1 October 2024).

How many feelings has the Shinkansen carried to this day?

Media Source: https://youtu.be/-B2zDIelS1E

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[redsamuraiii]

20240719 Iida line 2 by Bong Grit Via Flickr: 切石駅のあたり。奥の方の山は南アルプスの聖岳や赤石岳だと思う。 Photo taken at Iida line, Iida city, Nagano pref.

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JR x Capcom Trip Tokai card No. 16- Apollo and Trucy HD scan

[my-anime-goods]

Make Heroine ga Oosugiru! (Makine: Too Many Losing Heroines!) - JR Tokai Collaboration featuring goods with new illustrations from 29 September to 25 December 2024

[shoku-and-awe]

Luck has finally run out for the inspection bullet trains called Doctor Yellow, which will be retired over the next few years due to their age and condition, according to West Japan Railway Co. (JR West) and Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai).

Since the schedules for the bright-yellow Shinkansen were never announced publicly, sightings of the trains were said to bring good luck to all who spotted them.

The Doctor Yellows only ran once every 10 days or so, entrusted with inspecting railways, overhead wires and track signals. 

With the schedules and tracks that they would run on not disclosed, the belief arose that sighting one was lucky and that, ”If you see Doctor Yellow, you become happy.”

Currently, JR West and JR Tokai each operate a Doctor Yellow inspection bullet train utilizing the 700 Series Shinkansen.

However, both the operation and other qualities of the 700 Series trains are inferior to those of the latest N700S Series.

In addition, the inspection method using bullet trains in regular operations has been improving.

Subsequently, JR Tokai decided to quit running inspection bullet trains from January 2025 and JR West will end the inspections from or after 2027.

[raamitsu]

NEW JUJUTSU KAISEN ILLUSTRATION ⭐️

“From Friday, May 24th, the collaboration project "Juju Exploration in Kyoto" with JR Tokai will be implemented!”

MORE CONTENTS:

CHIBI JJK CASTs

GOJO, GETO AND SHOKO ACRYLIC STANDS.

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Japan's rail speed record holder: 300X

Sticking with the Tôkaidô Shinkansen and the SCMaglev & Railway Park, this is the (highly abridged) story of the fastest conventional train in Japan.

Following privatisation and sectorisation in the 1980s, and seeing France and Germany take the lead in the high-speed train department, the three JR companies that had Shinkansen lines set about catching up to offer 300 km/h services where they could. The aerodynamics and sheer weight of the venerable 0 Series and its derivatives weren't going to cut it, so each company designed a prototype train to test new technologies.

JR Tôkai's solution was 300X, officially Shinkansen Class 955 - numbers starting with 9 are trains not open to the public, either prototypes or work trains like Class 923 "Doctor Yellow". Launched two years after JR West's WIN350 and JR East's STAR21, it featured two radically different end cars. The more elegant one, in my opinion, is on display at JR Tôkai's museum in Nagoya, while the other is preserved at JR Group's research centre in Maibara. The intermediate cars have all been scrapped.

The three prototypes took turns to hold the national rail speed record, and, 300X being the last, it took the record last, and holds it to this day. We mentioned the fact that the Tôkaidô Shinkansen still had too many relatively tight turns, but the Maibara to Kyôto stretch is the best part, and that's where this train hit 443 km/h in 1996. This video may, or may not, be that run, but it still looks very fast - note the unusually large, "flying saucer" pantograph cowlings.

Unless JR East decide to go completely bonkers with their ALFA-X prototype, it's unlikely that the record is going to be beaten any time soon. It's not in the spirit of these trains, they are pure test beds and run quite extensively with the aim of increasing service speeds. Records also require special preparation of the tracks, which is why the French TGVs made their 1990 and 2007 record runs before the opening of a brand new line.

But JR Tôkai have gone much faster with their Maglev programme, which holds the world speed record for passenger trains outright with 603 km/h. Behind 300X at the museum is a predecessor of that record holder, MLX01, the first Maglev train to clock over 500 km/h. Again, this is not (just) showboating, the lengthy test programme's main aim is to prove that consistent service at very high speed with this technology is feasible, so that the Maglev Chûô Shinkansen can achieve this when it opens (if Yamanashi-ken can agree on a route).

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20240719 Iida line 5 by Bong Grit Via Flickr: トンネルの出口って希望に溢れてて好き。 Photo taken at Iida line, Yasuoka village, Shimoina district, Nagano pref.

[elendsessor]

i find the promo image so friggin funny because it’s like. ok we don’t talk about the shitty live action movie but can we talk about how the inaccurately huge rathalos really doesn’t like technology.

as awful as the movie is the fact that all the killing big bitch rathalos does tends to involve destroying aircrafts, tanks, etc. i don’t think you want any raths anywhere near any form of transportation.

doesn’t seem all that happy to be on the trip anyways so uh. uh oh.

[reno2005]

Capcom did a collaboration with the JR Tokai railway company in Japan.

As you’ve seen before I’m a sucker for these stands so I had to snag Leon’s pin and stand. I really love the artwork for this collab, Leon looks really nice here.