The 300 series was a Japanese high-speed Shinkansen train type with a top operational speed of 270 km/h that operated on the Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen lines between 1992 and 2012. It first served the fastest Nozomi services, and as more sets arrived, 66 trains by 1998, it replaced older units on Hikari service. The front-end styling was a curved wedge, replacing the aircraft-style nose cones of earlier Shinkansen. Technically it was the first Shinkansen type to use three-phase AC traction motors instead of direct current units, along with new bolsterless bogies to cut weight, and it was awarded the Laurel Prize in May 1993. A pre-series set was delivered on 8 March 1990 and recorded 325.7 km/h in March 1991. Production ended in October 1998 and the last sets were withdrawn on 16 March 2012.
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was a Japanese high-speed Shinkansen train type, with a top operational speed of 270 km/h (170 mph), which operated on the Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen lines in Japan between 1992 and 2012
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the first Shinkansen sets to employ three-phase AC traction motors instead of direct current units
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were completely withdrawn from Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen services by the start of the revised timetable on 17 March 2012
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was a Japanese high-speed Shinkansen train type
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built 1990 by Hitachi
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was a Japanese high-speed Shinkansen train type, with a top operational speed of 270 km/h (170 mph), which operated on the Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen lines in Japan between 1992 and 2012
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was a Japanese high-speed Shinkansen train type, with a top operational speed of 270 km/h (170 mph), which operated on the Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen lines in Japan between 1992 and 2012
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