The last set, 8512, was retired on 1 November 2021, following an announcement on the company's official Twitter account.

[4] Trainsets introduced from 1979 onward carried what subsequently became known as the Shin-Keisei "standard livery", consisting of beige with a brown stripe below the windows.

[2] From December 2006, the trains were repainted into a modified version of this livery with the brown stripes replaced by maroon stripes, coinciding with the start of through-running to and from the Keisei Chiba Line.

[2] The first set to receive Shin-Keisei's new pink and white corporate livery introduced in 2014 was 8518 in April 2017.

[5] In 2017, one of the last three 8000 series sets remaining in service, 8512, was specially repainted into the standard livery introduced in 1979.