Railway festival souvenir

[bikkuri bahn]

Sunday I went to the Seibu Musashigaoka Depot open house.  Crowded with families and tetsuota (a given since it's in Saitama) but there were railways from all over Kanto represented at the souvenir booths.  I picked up a surplus route map of the Tokyu Lines before the beginnning of through services via the underground Shibuya Station.  They gave buyers two choices- a yama-gawa version with the left side stations being inland locations, or an umi-gawa version where the left side is stations close to the sea or southern Kanagawa locations.  I chose the umi-gawa version, as that's the one I'm used to seeing, being Yokohama based.  Cost 1000 yen.

 

[Densha]

Are these from plastics as they are in the Netherlands or...?

[bikkuri bahn]

It's posterboard (paper).  I reckon they were used in secondary locations such as smaller station bulletin boards protected behind glass or plexi. It will make a nice wall hanging when framed.

Edited June 12, 2013 by bikkuri bahn

[marknewton]

1000 yen? What a bargain. 

 

I reckon if I went there I'd come away flat broke!  :)

 

Cheers,

 

Mark.

[bikkuri bahn]

1000 yen? What a bargain. 

 

I reckon if I went there I'd come away flat broke!  :)

 

Cheers,

 

Mark.

Yes, if I had hung around a bit longer I may have been short a few thousand yen more...But my main purpose ( I had only 2 hrs.) was to see the facility and be able to see the traction motors, bogies and wheelsets up close, as well as the tools and equipment they use for maintenance of said components.