STAR21
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"STAR21" was the name given to the 9-car experimental Shinkansen train developed in 1992 by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East) in Japan to test technology to be incorporated in next-generation shinkansen trains operating at speeds of or higher. The name was an acronym for "Superior Train for the Advanced Railway toward the 21st Century".
Key facts
- Train.name
- Class 952/953 "STAR21"
- Train.service
- 1992–1998
- Train.manufacturer
- Hitachi, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Nippon Sharyo
- Train.yearconstruction
- 1992
- Train.yearscrapped
- 1998
- Train.numberbuilt
- 9 vehicles
- Train.numberservice
- None
- Train.numberpreserved
- 3 vehicles
- Train.numberscrapped
- 6 vehicles
- Train.formation
- 9 cars
- Train.fleetnumbers
- S5
- Train.operator
- JR East
- Train.lines
- Tohoku Shinkansen, Joetsu Shinkansen
- Train.carbody
- Aluminium alloy
- Train.maxspeed
- (nominal)
- Train.traction
- Variable frequency (GTO)
- Train.electricsystem
- 25 kV AC, 50 Hz Overhead catenary
- Train.collectionmethod
- Pantograph
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- JRE 953-5 953-1.jpg
- Width
- 3.1
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- Shinkansen 952/953
- service entry
- 1992-03-27
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6 sectionsContents
- Design
- Formation
- History
- Preservation
- References
- Further reading
"STAR21" was the name given to the 9-car experimental Shinkansen train developed in 1992 by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East) in Japan to test technology to be incorporated in next-generation shinkansen trains operating at speeds of or higher. The name was an acronym for "Superior Train for the Advanced Railway toward the 21st Century".
==Design== The train consisted of nine cars arranged in two distinct "halves", with the Class 952 half-set consisting of four separate vehicles, and the Class 953 half-set consisting of five articulated vehicles using shared bogies.