Hokkaidō-Iryōdaigaku Station

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Hokkaidō-Iryōdaigaku ( 北海道 医療 大学 )
Hokkaido Iryōdaigaku-eki01.JPG
Reception building (May 2013)
Data
Location in the network Terminus
Platform tracks 2
abbreviation G14
opening 1st December 1981
location
City / municipality Tōbetsu
prefecture Hokkaidō
Country Japan
Coordinates 43 ° 13 '51 "  N , 141 ° 33' 0"  E Coordinates: 43 ° 13 '51 "  N , 141 ° 33' 0"  E
Height ( SO ) 12  m  TP
Railway lines

JR Hokkaido

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The Hokkaidō-Iryōdaigaku ( Japanese 医療 大学 駅 , Hokkaidō-Iryōdaigaku-eki ) is a train station on the Japanese island of Hokkaidō . It is operated by the JR Hokkaido railway company and is located in the Ishikari sub-prefecture in the area of ​​the city of Tōbetsu .

description

Hokkaidō-Iryōdaigaku is a terminus and former through station on the Sasshō line , which runs from Sapporo to Sōen and is operated by the JR Hokkaido railway company . Local trains to and from Sapporo run approximately every 15 minutes during rush hour , otherwise approximately every 30 to 60 minutes. Until 2020 the line continued to Shin-Totsukawa and this station at the very edge of the agglomeration was the end point of the electrified section, while to the northeast of it only diesel railcars ran through a sparsely populated rural region. The system change station was the neighboring Ishikari-Tōbetsu station , which is why both types of traction were run in parallel over a length of three kilometers.

The station is outside the city of Tōbetsu and opens up the campus of the Hokkaidō Medical University (Hokkaidō Iryō Daigaku) , after which it is named. The facility is oriented from southwest to northeast and has two tracks on two side platforms . Both are connected to each other, which means that the western one is actually a head platform. The reception building on the north side is not staffed. From there, a covered footbridge leads to a convenience shop of the Seicomart chain and to the main building of the university.

history

Although the part of the Sasshō line north of Ishikari-Tōbetsu had existed since 1935, the trains ran here without stopping for over four decades. Apart from a few farms, there was no settlement in the area. In 1974, the Higashi-Nihon Gakuen Daigaku private university, which specializes in medicine, opened its first “green field” faculty next to the railway line, which was soon followed by others. To make it easier for the students to travel, the university petitioned the Japanese State Railways to build a train station at its own expense. Thereupon, on December 1, 1981, the state railroad set up a stop called Daigaku-mae ( 大学 前 , "in front of the university"), which it upgraded to a regular train station on April 1, 1982.

Platforms facing northeast (August 2018)
Platform locks

As part of the privatization of the state railway, the station passed into the possession of the new company JR Hokkaido on April 1, 1987 . Since the university was renamed in 1994, it was given its current name when the timetable changed on March 16, 1995. In December 2009, JR Hokkaido began work on electrifying the suburban part of the Sasshō Line. They were completed in March 2012 and the first electric multiple unit ran on June 1, 2012. Hokkaidō-Iryōdaigaku formed the northern end of the electrified section. However, the role of the system changing station was taken over by the neighboring Ishikari-Tōbetsu station, from where diesel multiple units ran to Shin-Totsukawa .

In November 2016, JR Hokkaido announced that it would shut down the barely used and high-deficit section north of Hokkaidō-Iryōdaigaku. May 7, 2020 was agreed as the shutdown date. The state of emergency declared by the government in view of the COVID-19 pandemic meant that the last train to Shin-Totsukawa left on April 17th. Since then, Hokkaidō-Iryōdaigaku has been the terminus.

Adjacent train stations

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JR Hokkaido 		Ishikari-Kanazawa
(1935-2020)

Web links

Commons : Hokkaidō-Iryōdaigaku Station  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Our University. Hokkaidō Iryō Daigaku, accessed April 19, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Tsuru Michitaka: 学園 都市 線 の 新 し い 夏 電 化 と 輸送 改善 で 変 貌 す る 札 沼 線 . In: Tetsudō Journal . tape 46 , no. 8 . Tetsudōjānarusha, Tokyo August 2012, p. 40-49 .
  3. ↑ 大学 前 駅 が 誕生 国 鉄 札 沼 線. In: Hokkaidō Shimbun , December 1, 1981.
  4. ↑ 札 沼 線 （学園 都市 線） の 電 化 に つ い て. (PDF, 31 kB) JR Hokkaido , accessed on September 14, 2009 (Japanese).
  5. ↑ 札幌 圏 の 電車 運用 と 札 沼 線 用 気 動 車 の 去就 . In: Japan Railfan Magazine . No. 652 . Kōyūsha, Nagoya February 2013, p. 76-81 .
  6. ↑ JR Hokkaido says it can't maintain half of its railways. The Japan Times , November 19, 2016, accessed January 16, 2017 .
  7. ↑ 札 沼 線 （北海道 医療 大学 ・ 新 十津川 間） の 鉄 道 事業 廃 止 届 の 提出 に つ い て. (PDF, 33 kB) JR Hokkaidō , December 21, 2018, archived from the original on December 22, 2018 ; Retrieved April 18, 2020 (Japanese).
  8. ↑ 札 沼 線 （北海道 医療 大学 ・ 新 十津川 間） 最終 運行 に つ い て. (PDF, 89 kB) JR Hokkaidō, April 16, 2020, accessed on April 18, 2020 (Japanese).