Taken on 17th Dec 2005, at the same location, about 8 months after
Japan Railway's worse accident in recent history, the JR
Fukuchiyama Line accident, which claimed 107 lives including the
driver, who had some records of overshoots and delays. The train in
the picture is has the same configuration as the accident train
(4+3), and carries the same color (same series trains repainted to
blue and orange after accident, repaint finished early last
year).
There is a small sign at the extreme left of the picture, with
'300' on it, denoting the turn's radius to be 300 metres, not a
steep turn you would say, but for trains to be running on it at 60
plus km/h, its really a scary thing. The train in the picture is
running less than 60km/h. The previous limit had been 70km/h, 10
more and slightly up on the scare scale...
Accident train's running schedule number have been changed from
5418M to 5818M.
JR West Series 207 specs
Configuration: 3, 4, 7 carriages
Acceleration: 2.7km/h/s
Max Operating Speed: 120km/h
Designed Max Speed: 120km/h (some sources state 130km/h)
Braking:
Normal Max: 3.5km/h/s
Emergency: 4.5km/h/s
Capacity:
First carriage: 50 seating, 100 standing
Middle carriages: 58 seating, 105 standing
Length: 20000mm
Width: 2950mm
Height: 3700mm (High Center of Gravity)
Gauge: 1067mm
Electric supply: 1500V DC overhead
Gear ratio: 1:7.07
Safety systems: ATS-SW, ATS-P
Manufacturers: Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Kinki Cars, Hitachi
Factories
Info from
Japan Wikipedia
