Japanese train 1-4 JNR(JR) Electric Car (EC)

It is introduced here about the JNR electric car.

1 Commuter vehicles

photograph existing series / commentary
ec101 series 6cars 101 series

The vehicles which became the origin of the new performance electric car of the national railway. It was with 6 cars only being left nowadays though it was active for the commuter transport in the big city of Tokyo and Osaka since 1956.
ec103 series 939cars
753cars
54cars
103 series

This series was manufactured as a definitive edition of the national railroad commuter type train in those days in 1964. The acceleration and slowdown of this train were efficient, and the one for some 3000 cars was manufactured by to be cheap cost, and it became the most number in Japan.
ec105 series 121cars 105 series

This series was manufactured in 1979 to exchange these old model vehicles though the train of the old model was running at that time in the country. When Nara line electrifies it , there is a part of one remodeled into 105 series from 103-1000 series that it was running in Tokyo, too.
ec201 series 784cars
224cars
201 series

201 series was manufactured since 1979 to exchange 101 series that became decrepit.
ec203 series 170cars 203 series

This series made the body from aluminum as a design based on 201 series. Therefore, an electric machine and the interior are the design which is about the same as 201 series.
ec205 series 1413cars
48cars
205 series

Because 103 series made in a large quantity became decrepit, it had to make new vehicles in place of those vehicles cheap in a large quantity. The body is made of the stainless steel. And the interior design is about the same as 201 series.
ec207-900 series 10cars 207-900 series

This series was designed with the purpose of making the vehicles of the next generation that the maintenance of the electric machine and the amount of electric power consumption were restrained. A control method is a VVVF method. This series ended in only tentative production.
ec301 series 50cars 301 series

This series was designed based on 103 series because of the direct service with the JNR and the subway. Only 56 cars were made because a cost was high though it was made as the vehicles of the first aluminum body in the JNR in 1966.