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This set, and with it the whole 9800 Series, was introduced by Chiba New Town Railway in 2017 to replace the last (out of two) of it’s “original” 9000 Series sets, wich had entered service in 1984 under the company’s predecessor – the Housing and Urban Development Pubblic Corporation – for the opening of the first section of the 2nd phase of the Hokuso Line, between Komuro and Chiba New Town-Chuo.

Originally, Chiba New Town Railway envisioned the replacement of both sets with a Keisei 3000 Series-derivative, but due to financial issues correlated to the nearly non-existant budget, the “company” was able to replace only one of the two sets – 9008F (at the hands of the sole set in the 9200 Series, 9201F – as mentioned, a strict derivative of Keisei’s 3000 Series), wich was retired in March 2013.

To replace the other set, 9018F, after some time Chiba New Town Railway opted for a cheaper and more immediate option – renting a relatively older 3700 Series set from Keisei Railway, in the same vein as Hokuso Railway (Chiba New Town Railway’s rolling stock user) had already been doing since 2003.

Set 3738F, built by Tokyu Car Corporation in 1994, was choosen by Keisei as the set to be rented to Chiba New Town Railway, and after being repainted in the latter’s colours (light blue and yellow, based on the 9100 Series “C-Flyer” livery) but keeping Keisei’s color arrangment scheme, and being reclassified as the sole set 9801F within the “9800 Series”, Chiba New Town Railway’s “new” train entered service on the 21st of March 2017, the day after 9000 Series set 9018F was retired.

Other than that, set 9801F differs very little from it’s Keisei and Hokuso counterparts, with the only difference being the colour scheme.

As Chiba New Town Railway works – that is, essentially allocating a “pool” of rolling stock for Hokuso Railway to use – set 9801F since it’s introduction, and as of today, has been used interchangeably with the rest of Hokuso Railway’s fleet on Hokuso Line trough-services, running between Imba-Nihon-Idai station to Haneda Airport or Nishi-Magome Station, via the Keisei Network, Toei Subway Asakusa Line and Keikyu Railway.

Trivia #1
Having been built in 1994 (as set 3738F), set 9801F is just 10 years “younger” than 9000 Series set 9018 it had replaced, as the latter had been manufactured in 1984.
If we factor the relative age of the design (the first 3700 Series set had been introduced in 1991), the number thins by three more years, to seven.