Keikyu N1000 (Batch 3)

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This is the first Japanese train I have drawn in over a year...

First constructed in 2002, the humble N1000 series train has been built continuously for 23 years. Throughout the years, it has undergone several revisions, with traction chains, carriage lengths, and bogie types being changed over time, with other minor changes being position of the front door (changed in Batch 18 trains), headlight arrangement, front windows, and headlight types/interior lighting. This particular one is an aluminium-bodied, 3rd-batch train no.041, which was initially fitted with Siemens SIBAS32 GTO-VVVF inverters, which gave a signature do-re-mi-fa-so sound upon departure. Sadly, because of lack of spare parts, these inverters were replaced with hybrid SiC-IGBT inverters, which sound lovely, but not as good as the SIBAS32 GTO-VVVF inverters they used to have. This model still has the original inverters, indicated by the floor equipment.

There will only be one carriage made, I am not going to draw the entire train, this was difficult enough!

Below is the actual train I based it off, 8-carriage Batch 3 train no.041. No.041 is still in service, but with SiC-IGBT inverters instead of GTO-VVVF or PTR-VVVF (like the 600 series before the N1000s)
My next Japanese train will be a Keikyu 2100 series, which is related to the N1000s.