Shin Keisei to be absorbed into Keisei

[Nick_Burman]

 

 

Feature about the forthcoming absorption of the Shin-Keisei Railway into parent Keisei, scheduled to happen next April.

 

Search me why YouTube put a Tobu train as the thumbnail, though.

 

Cheers

[miyakoji]

Thanks Nick, I was not aware of this.  According to Wikipedia this is happening next month (this year), not next April.  I wonder if the crews are happy to have more variety in their routes, or if they don’t want anything to do with new lines, lol.

[Express691]

This wasn't the only acquisition-type merger on Japanese Railways effective April 1. Another big one happened over in Kansai as the Semboku Line, branching south from Nakamozu in Osaka, was absorbed into Nankai. Had a buddy in Japan and he was ultimately curious about the amount of toritetsu on the Semboku platforms.

Here's an article on the Toyo Keizai Shimbun in Japanese.
https://toyokeizai.net/articles/-/867842

I'm probably going to do a youtube short on this topic. I did a youtube short on this topic:

 

Edited April 8 by Express691

[Sacto1985]

I'm actually kind of surprised that Shin-Keisei Railway wasn't part of the Keisei Electric Railway like 20 years ago.