Unlike during the prewar period, trains made up of only three-door cars equipped with cross-seats were seldom seen on other lines (though a limited number of trains used type 72 cars and Kuha type 55 cars) and they were hailed by many railway maniacs as 'the Keihanshin Local Line in the Western Japan, the Yokosuka Line in the Eastern Japan.'
戦前とは違い、3扉クロスシート車で揃えられた魅力は（ごく一部に72系やクハ55を組み込んだ編成があったにしても）他線では見られないものであり、「西の京阪神緩行線、東の横須賀線」として多くの鉄道愛好者にもてはやされた。