This page explains the numbering and classification schemes for locomotives employed by the Japanese Government Railways, the Japanese National Railways and the Japan Railways Group.
The first locomotive of Japan, Locomotive No. 1, historically classified as E, A1 and 150
SL Hitoyoshi locomotive 58654 of Class 8620
Steam locomotive number D51 498 of Class D51
JGR Class 6010 (later ED53) electric locomotive number 6011 built by Baldwin and Westinghouse for the Tōkaidō Main Line
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The Japanese National Railways, abbreviated JNR or Kokutetsu, was the government-owned entity that operated Japan's national railway network from 1949 to 1987.
Japan Railways locomotive numbering and classification
…This page explains the numbering and classification schemes for locomotives employed by the Japanese Government Railways, the Japanese National Railways and the Japan Railways Group. Prior to the nationalization of Japanese railways in 1906 and 1907, the government-run railways had numbered their steam…
0 series set Tokaido Shinkansen in Tokyo, May 1967
JNR Bus
Ukō Ferry (c. 1986)
JNR plate seen at the entrance of its headquarters in Tokyo, photo taken c. 1985