>>938169JR Hokkaido posted a Road Map last year discussing about their short term (Between 2014 and 2018) plan. Some of the things pertaining to rolling stock include:
- Replacing the aging 711 Series EMU with 733 Series EMU (Done)
- Scrap 27 out of 37 of the 785 Series Express EMU used in the Sapporo area and replace them with 789-0 Series EMU made surplus from the opening of the Hokkaido Shinkansen (They are probably starting to work on that)
- Replacing the KiHa 183-0 Series DMU with KiHa 261-1000 Series DMU (in progress)
- Build two prototype local use DMU and start doing test runs (Beginning in 2017)
Long Term goals included what I mentioned before and replacing the 721 Series EMU
Sauce (Page 4):
http://www.jrhokkaido.co.jp/press/2015/150508-1.pdf>There's no way JR Hokkaido has the money to replace all their JNR-era rolling stockI'm pretty sure they will probably replace the really old ones first and [lolnospoiler] beg the government for funds for the rest fo them [/lolnospoiler] And we haven't even touch the problem of aging infrastructure since they have a lot of ancient as fuck bridges, tunnels, and other things as well
