455 series

These were the 455 series cars built from new between 1965 and 1971.[3][2]

• KuHa 455-1 – 75, driving trailer cars
• KuMoHa 455-1 – 51, driving motor cars
• KuRoHa 455–1, composite driving trailer converted from KuHa 455–44 with three rows of "Green" (first class) seats[1]
• MoHa 454-1 – 51, intermediate motor cars, with pantograph
• SaHa 455-1 – 8, intermediate trailer cars (built for use in 457 series sets)[2]
• SaRo 455-1 – 45, "Green" (first class) trailer cars
• SaHaShi 455-1 – 26, buffet cars

• 
  JR East KuMoHa 455–37, July 2006
• 
  JR East MoHa 454–37, July 2006
• 
  JR-West SaHa 455–8, March 2010

With the reduction in express services and gradual reassignment of 455 series sets to local services, a number of cab cars were subsequently rebuilt from intermediate cars or other EMU types from 1975 to allow shorter sets to be formed.[2]

• KuHa 455-201: Rebuilt in 1975 from SaHaShi 455-18 buffet car[3][2]
• KuHa 455-202 – 203: Rebuilt in 1979 from 451 series EMU driving cars KuHa 451-26 and 27[3][2]

• KuHa 455-301 – 320: Rebuilt in 1984 from 165 series EMU KuHa 165 driving cars.[1][3]
• KuHa 455-321 – 324: Rebuilt 1984-1985 from 169 series EMU KuHa 169-900 driving cars.[1][3]

• KuHa 455-401: Rebuilt in 1984 from 165 series EMU KuMoHa 165 driving car.[1][3]
• KuHa 455-402 – 405: Rebuilt 1984-1985 from 169 series EMU KuMoHa 169-900 driving cars.[1][3]

• KuHa 455-501 – 505: Rebuilt in 1983 from 165 series EMU SaHa 165 intermediate trailer cars.[1][3]

• KuHa 455-601 – 605: Rebuilt in 1984 from 455 series EMU SaRo 455 intermediate "Green" trailer cars.[1][3]
• KuHa 455-606 – 611: Rebuilt from 165 series EMU SaRo 165 intermediate "Green" trailer cars.[1]

• KuHa 455-701 – 702: Rebuilt in 1986 and 1987 from 455 series EMU SaHa 455 intermediate trailer cars.[1][3]

• 
  JR East KuMoHa 455–202, March 1989
• 
  JR East KuHa 455–317, July 2006
• 
  JR East KuHa 455–405, April 2007
• 
  JR Kyushu KuHa 455–501 in a mixed 475/455 series set, March 2002
• 
  JR Kyushu KuHa 455–605 in a mixed 475/455 series set, May 2006
• 
  JR-West KuHa 455–701 in a mixed 413/455 series set, April 2006

As of October 1, 2013, JR-West operated 16 KuHa 455 cars (including two KuHa 455-700 cars), included in mixed 413/455 and 475/455 series three-car sets based at Kanazawa Depot and used on the Hokuriku Main Line. They were formed as shown below.

413/455 series set B04 in July 2013, with its KuHa 455 driving car visible at the rear end

• In March 2013, these sets were reallocated to the Nanao Line.

• The MoHa 474 car is fitted with one PS21 lozenge-type pantograph.[3]

A typical formation for a combined Bandai (455 series, cars 1 to 6, Ueno - Kitakata) and Iwate (451/453 series, cars 7 to 13, Ueno - Morioka) service as of March 1972 is shown below.[2]

JR East 3-car sets (S2 to S51) based at Sendai Depot and used in the Tohoku region until their withdrawal in 2008 were formed as shown below.[4]

• The MoHa 454 car was fitted with one PS16 lozenge-type pantograph.[4]

Rebuilt car KuRoHa 455–1 in 2006 with Green car saloon at the outer end

One JR East 3-car set, S40, based at Sendai Depot, was modified in 1999 with a KuRoHa 455 car at the north end including three rows of "Green" car (first class) accommodation arranged 2+2 abreast.[4]

• The MoHa 454 car was fitted with one PS16 lozenge-type pantograph.[4]

• KuHa: Standard class driving trailer car
• KuMoHa: Standard class driving motor car
• MoHa: Intermediate motor car
• SaRo: "Green" (first class) trailer car
• SaHaShi: Buffet car