Original cream livery (2009-2021) on the left, current all-over orange livery (2017-today) on the right.
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The 3000 Series was introduced by Iyo Railway in the late ‘2000s as a replacement for the ageing 700 and especially 800 Series, both ex-Keio trains, the formers being ex-5000 Series trains built in the mid-1960s and purchased by Iyo Railway between the late 1980s and the mid-1990s, while the latters were 2000 Series trains built in the late 1950s and purchased between the mid- and the late-1980s.
The replacement choice fell on another Keio Railway train, the 3000 Series of the Inokashira Line, specifically the later-built batches, wich were nearing full replacement by hand of the additional batches of the newer 1000 Series. Iyo Railway opted to purchase 20 cab cars and 10 intermediate cars, to form a grand total of ten 3-car trains, enough to replace about 60% of the company’s heavy-rail fleet.
After retirement and purchase, these cars were later handed to Keio Heavy Maintainance Co. wich was tasked with refurbishing them and modifiying to Iyo Railway’s requests; these modifications included the fitting of an additional pantograph on half of the cab cars, a new traction system, replacing the trains’ original shunt-chopper control and DC brush motors with a modern IGBT-VVVF inverter manufactured by Toyo Denki and three-phase AC motors as well as a gerneral adaptation of all the electrical equipment to work with Iyo Railway’s 600v DC catenary instead of the 1500v DC for wich these trains were built.
Repainted in Iyo Railway’s colours, orange, red and cream, but following the Inokashira Line-era color arrangment, the ten 3000 Series sets were delivered by truck to Iyo Railway in Matsuyama and entered service on all three of the company’s heavy-rail lines, the Takahama, Yokogawara and Gunchu Lines, at a pace of roughly two trains evry six months between late August 2009 and late March 2012.
Since then, the 3000 Series has lived a relativel uneventful life, shuttling up and down all three of Iyo Railway’s lines. The only notable change was the introdution in 2017 of Iyo Railways’ new all-over orange livery, applied both to heavy-rail trains as well as tram and busses, wich gradually replaced the older one on 3000 Series trains by 2021.
As of today, all ten sets are still in service, being used seamlessly thruought the whole of Iyo Railway’s heavy-rail network, and being the newest trains in the company’s fleet, no replacement planned, nor they will not be expected to be retire for the next couple of decades.