Hiroo Train Station (Hokkaidō)

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Hiroo ( 広 尾 )
Hiroo station 01.jpg
former station building (August 2007)
Data
Location in the network Terminus
Platform tracks 1
opening November 5, 1932
Conveyance 2nd February 1987
location
City / municipality Hiroo
prefecture Hokkaidō
Country Japan
Coordinates 42 ° 17 '46 "  N , 143 ° 18' 35"  E Coordinates: 42 ° 17 '46 "  N , 143 ° 18' 35"  E
Height ( SO ) 40  m  TP
Railway lines

Decommissioned:

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The Hiroo Station ( Jap. 広尾駅 , Hiroo-eki ) is a former railway station on the Japanese island of Hokkaido . It was located in Tokachi Sub-Prefecture in the Hiroo Township area and operated from 1932 to 1987.

description

Hiroo was the southern terminus of the 84.0 km long Hiroo Line , which branched off from the Nemuro main line in Obihiro . The station was north-west of the city center and oriented from north-east to south-west. It had a track for passenger traffic, the station building was on the south side of the facility. There were also three more tracks for freight traffic. The four tracks combined to form a siding that ended bluntly about 150 meters southwest of the reception building. From this a pull-out track branched off to a goods loading platform. Another track led to a small depot with a turntable in the northeastern part of the facility .

Aerial view (1977)

After the station was closed, the Hiroo City Council opened a small exhibition on local railway history in the former reception building. It is also used as a bus terminal for the Tokachi Bus and JR Hokkaido Bus companies. The track systems were replaced on the one hand by a parking lot, on the other hand as a publicly accessible park. There, a reminiscent Treibradsatz a steam locomotive of JNR Class C11 as a memorial to the former railway line.

history

The Ministry of Railways opened the station on November 5, 1932, along with the southernmost section of the Hiroo Line from Taiki. In the appendix of the Railway Construction Act, which had been revised ten years earlier, a project was included that provided for an extension of the Hiroo line to the southwest. It should have led past Cape Erimo to Samani , where it would meet the main Hidaka line . However, due to a lack of demand, this never happened.

From 1969 to 1975 the Japanese State Railways temporarily ran express trains from Hiroo via Obihiro to Nukabira on the Shihoro Line . In 1977 she replaced the reception building with a new building. For cost reasons, the state railway stopped freight traffic on September 10, 1982, and checked baggage on February 1, 1984. Eventually she shut down the entire Hiroo line on February 2, 1987.

Web links

Commons : Hiroo Train Station  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Shunzō Miyawaki, Katsumasa Harada: 国 鉄 全線 各 駅 停車 1 北海道 690 駅 . Shogakukan, Tokyo 1983, ISBN 978-4-09-395101-2 , pp. 140 .
  2. ↑ Atsushi Shirakawa: 全国 保存 鉄 道 III 東 日本 編 . JTB Publishing, Tokyo 1998, ISBN 978-4-533-03096-3 , pp. 68 .
  3. ↑ Shunzō Miyawaki: 鉄 道 廃 線 跡 を 歩 く (hiking along disused railway lines) . tape 4 . JTB Publishing, Tokyo 1997, ISBN 978-4-533-02857-1 , pp. 201 .
  4. ↑ Keisuke Imao: 日本 鉄 道 旅行 地 図 帳 (Japan Rail Travel Atlas ) . tape 1 Hokkaidō. Shinchosha, Tokyo 2008, ISBN 978-4-10-790019-7 , pp. 40 .