The Eidan 200 series was a planned city commuter electric multiple unit ordered by the Teito Rapid Transit Authority (a predecessor company to what is now Tokyo Metro) for use on the Ginza Line.
History[]
The TRTA conceived the 200 series as a means to increase service frequencies on the Ginza Line, acting as the first railcars manufactured since the TRTA was founded, having acquired the previous Tokyo Underground Railway and Tokyo Rapid Railway. Five cars were ordered in 1942, based on the 1200 series cars; it is stated that the order breakdown consisted of Hitachi manufacturing two car bodies and the related electrical equipment, Kisha Seizō manufacturing the remaining three car bodies and Mitsubishi Electric manufacturing the related electrical equipment for the remaining three cars.
For reasons unknown this order was never fulfilled, with only the Mitsubishi-manufactured parts delivered around 1947. Twelve motors from this batch of parts would be used to maintain existing trains, with no more parts or car bodies delivered. It has been said that the Hitachi Electric Railway's MoHa 11 series cars were made using the unfinished body shells of the 200 series sets; other sources claim that the cars were completed but Hitachi (which also owned the Hitachi Electric Railway), through some executive meddling, forced the cars to be handed over to the Hitachi Electric Railway for their use as they desperately needed more train cars for use on their own line, leading to the TRTA never receiving them.
| Tokyo Metro rolling stock | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Active | Ginza Line | 1000 (gen 2) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Marunouchi Line | 2000 (gen 2) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hibiya Line | 13000 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tōzai Line | 05 • 05N • 07 • 15000 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chiyoda Line | 05 • 16000 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Yūrakuchō Line | 10000 • 17000 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hanzōmon Line | 08 • 8000 • 18000 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Namboku Line | 9000 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fukutoshin Line | 10000 • 17000 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Withdrawn | Ginza Line | 01 • 100 • 1000 (gen 1) • 1100 • 1200 • 1300 • 1400 • 1500 • 1500N • 1500NN • 1600 • 1700 • 1800 • 1900 • 2000 (gen 1) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Marunouchi Line | 02 • 500 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hibiya Line | 03 • 3000 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tōzai Line | 5000 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chiyoda Line | 06 • 5000 • 6000 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Yūrakuchō Line | 07 • 7000 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fukutoshin Line | 7000 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Proposed | Ginza Line | 200 | ||||||||||||||||||||||