Current pink livery (2014 to today) on the left, and the original brown livery (2005 to 2015) on the right.
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The N800 Series was introduced by Shin-Keisei Railway in the mid-2000s to replace the old 800 and 8000 Serieses, and also in preparation for the start of trough-services with the Keisei Chiba Line to Keisei Chiba-Chuo station.
The 800 Series had been introduced in 1971 as Shin-Keisei Railway’s first in-house rolling stock design (evrything that came before was purchased second-hand from Keisei), but depsite the early ’70s production timeframe, it was a “born old” train, whose design tenets (such as the single-leaf doors) dated back to the late 1950s, as it was based on Keisei’s original 3100 Series introduced in 1960.
The 8000 Series on the other hand, while relatively more modern in design and concept, as well as in manufactured (having been produced between 1978 and 1985), was also relatively ageing. At the time, a refurbishment program had been started, and was ongoing for the newest sets in the series, but such expensive modifications made little economic sense on the oldest, nearly life-expired sets.
As such, a new train was needed, and given that their main services would’ve involved trough-running onto the Keisei Chiba Line, adopting Keisei’s standard commuter train design, the 3000 Series, was the most ovbious, simplest and cost-effective solution. Thus, after about 40 years of “in-house” rolling stock design, Shin-Keisei Railway returned using Keisei’s, it’s “mother company”, designs.
Classified as the “N800 Series” (meaning “New 800 Series”), the new trains were essentially identical to Keisei’s 3000 Series, barred a few minor details.
The most notable difference is of course the livery, Shin-Keisei’s brown one, but in a very stilish scheme based on four side bands of different widths, representing the four towns along the Shin-Keisei Line: Matsudo, Kamagaya, Funabashi and Narashino.
Manufactured by Nippon-Sharyo, the first N800 Series set, N818F, was delivered in April 2005, entering revenue services after some necessary testing, on the 29th of May, replacing 800 Series formation 802F. One-and-a-half years later, with the timetable revision of winter 2006, on the 10th of December trough-services with the Keisei Chiba Line to Keisei-Chiba-Chuo were officially started.
However, no further N800 Series sets were procured, as the existing 8800 Series fleet (dating from the 1980s and retrofitted to be compatible with the Keisei network) was judged to be sufficient to handle the bulk of trough-services.
Only in 2010 another N800 Series set was ordered, with formation N828F, also built by Nippon Sharyo, being delivered in December 2010, replacing the last two 800 Series sets (806F and 810F), wich had been retired earlier in July. Two more years elapsed before another N800 Series set, N838F, was ordered and delivered, in September 2012, with the two sets togheter replacing the two remaining non-refurbished 8000 Series sets (8504F and 8516F).
A fourth N800 Series set, N848F, came after three years, in December 2015, and in August 2018, the fifth and final N800 Series set, N858F, was delivered, bringing the fleet to a total of five six-car sets, produced over a 13-year timeframe – a ludicriously slow average of one train evry two-and-a-half years!
Subsequent new rolling stock introduction would take the form of the 80000 Series, derived from Keisei’s brand new 3100 Series introduced in 2019.
As a little step back in time, in 2014, with the unveiling of a new corporate image for Shin-Keisei Railway, based on a new “Gentle Pink” colour, the whole rolling stock fleet started to be repained in a new livery based on said “Gentle Pink” colour; this of course also applied to the N800 Series, with all sets being repainted between 2014 and 2015 (new trains delivered after 2014 – N848F and N858F – were fitted from the start with the new pink livery). However, this hasn’t been the end of the fancy maroon livery, as in July 2024, set N838F was repainted in it’s original maroon as a “revival livery” – quite an unusual occurence for a relatively modern train.
As of today, all five N800 Series sets (N838F in the original maroon livery and the rest in the current pink livery) are in regular service on the Shin-Keisei Line, running from Matsudo to Keisei-Tsudanuma and then onto Keisei Chiba Line tracks to Keisei-Chiba-Chuo.