JR Freight Class EF200 electric locomotive EF200-4 at Suita Depot, Osaka.(英語) · TRJN · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
年表
この年表は英語のみです。
1990Prototype locomotive EF200-901 is built by Hitachi in 1990 and allocated to Shin-Tsurumi Depot in Tokyo for extensive testing.
1992Full-production locomotives are delivered to Shin-Tsurumi Depot in Tokyo and enter revenue service on the Tokaido and Sanyo Main Lines from the summer; the class is awarded the Laurel Prize by the Japan Railfan Club.
1999From 1 April the entire class of 21 locomotives is transferred from Shin-Tsurumi Depot in Tokyo to Suita Depot in Osaka.
2011Class member EF200-1, the production fleet’s number-one locomotive, is withdrawn and later scrapped in January 2013 as the class is progressively retired; from 2007 the class had been power-derated to match the output of the older Class EF66.
2019The final service of the Class EF200 runs on 28 March, with EF200-18 hauling its last freight train from the Hatabu yard in Shimonoseki to the Suita freight terminal in Osaka, ending the type's operation; one locomotive (prototype EF200-901) is preserved at the Hitachi Mito factory.