15-18 Number of Railway Passenger Coaches and Freight Cars Owned
Item	1978	1985	1990	1995	1998	1999
Passenger Coaches (coach)	14844	20872	27261	32404	34246	34535
Soft Berth Coaches	435	679	1061	1537	1926	1975
Hard Berth Coaches	2155	2633	4351	7607	9182	9443
Soft Seat Coaches	78	260	330	574	750	756
Hard Seat Coaches	8888	13700	17503	18076	17273	17156
Soft and Hard Seat Coaches	131	114	63	35	25	25
Dining Cars	820	1221	1520	1695	1795	1774
Luggage and Post Cars	1149	1498	1686	1949	2092	2107
Business Cars	85	87	77	87	70	69
Simple and Substitute Cars	528	79	42	9
Others	575	601	628	835	1133	1230
Freight Cars (coach)	250138	300886	364966	432731	439326	436236
Grouped by Type of Car
Covered Cars	40054	52667	66668	80437	85373	89935
Open Cars	150745	185684	232999	268179	257172	248243
Flat Cars	20747	18753	18726	27461	30686	28559
Hazardous Materials Cars			1229	1580	1578	1578
Tank Cars	33045	31837	33646	37119	37191	37486
Refrigerator Cars	2439	3991	5150	7030	8051	7988
Others	3108	7944	6548	10925	19275	22447
Grouped by Capacity of Car
20 Tons and Under	1400	1476	949	1458
25-40 Tons	44409	21520	8699	8786	5987①	8005
50 Tons	106792	104456	92442	48287	19560	15857
51-59 Tons	18068	16544	15500	27951
60 Tons	72453	153198	238680	342086	323976	315984
65 Tons	3380	1571	6825	3546	84360②	90956
73 Tons and Over	294	306	329	385	5443③	5434
Others	3342	1815	1542	232
Total Loading Capacity of Freight	1230.2	1612.5	2055.3	2502.9	2614.0	2595.8
Cars (10 000 tons)
Average Marked Loading Capacity per	49.8	53.9	56.6	57.9	59.5	59.5
Car (ton)
a) Statistics on freight cars are based on marked loading capacity of cars since 1997, resulting in the adjustment of grouping of cars. Data marked ① refer to cars with a loading capacity of 40 tons and less (including 20 tons and less), data marked ② refer to cars with a loading capacity of 61 tons, and ③ refer to cars with a loading capacity of 70 tons and over. The same as in the following years.