Flight of the Bumble Bee

Don't know why I should think of that music but maybe because these trains are about the same colour and also make a buzzing bee kind of noise as they lurch by. These Tokyo inner suburban units are all a bit of a blur to me, you need to be a specialist to identify them but I'm pretty sure this is a 201 Class. The yellow colour says 'Chuo Line' and in fact this is a crossing in Hachioji about 30 miles west of Tokyo. If you go to platforms 1 and 2 in Tokyo station there's one leaving about every two minutes

These trains have evolved in design over fifty years and are amazingly robust and reliable. If they aren't speeding up or slowing down they bucket along at 62 mph and in the rush hour each of the ten coaches probably has 350 people aboard. So this is a 'ten Jumbo train' in areonautical terms! An experience worth missing as you might imagine.