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The Tsubasa (つばさ, Tsubasa?) is the only service running on the Yamagata Shinkansen, which started in 1992. The services are operated by twelve 7-car 400 series trains and three 7-car E3-1000 series trains, which are used interchangeably. They couple with E4 Series trains for their journey from Tokyo to Fukushima and travel at 240 km/h. Tsubasa trains are limited to 130 km/h on the Yamagata shinkansen from Fukushima to Shinjō since there are many sharp curves and level crossings, as the line is essentially a regauged narrow-gauge line. From March 2007, all Tsubasa trains were made entirely non-smoking. [1]
A new build of twelve 7-car E3 series trains will replace the older 400 series trains between December 2008 and summer 2009. [2]
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