OPENING SWITCHGEAR

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an opening switchgear in which a plurality of opening/closing bodies can be disposed in such a manner that respective front and rear surfaces become the same plane approximately under a closed state but an upper mechanism section which guides an upper end side of these opening/closing bodies can be made compact.SOLUTION: An opening switchgear 1 comprises a plurality of opening/closing bodies 10, 10 which are disposed to freely slide along a width direction of an opening 5. The opening switchgear 1 is structured to laterally dispose for closing the plurality of opening/closing bodies in such a manner that respective front and rear surfaces 11, 12 become the same plane approximately and, on the other hand, to dispose for opening the neighboring opening/closing bodies to be overlapped longitudinally. The opening switchgear 1 comprises slide rails 26, 26 and a rail holding section 23. The slide rails 26, 26 are connected to upper end sides of the plurality of opening/closing bodies and elongated/contracted in a sliding direction of the opening/closing bodies to guide the opening/closing bodies. The rail holding section 23 holds each of the slide rails in such a manner as to freely displace between a storage position where the slide rails are located to be arranged side by side along an elongating/contracting direction at an approximately equal height position approximately right under a top surface 21a of the opening, and a front position which is protruded forward from the storage position.