Horonai train station

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Horonai ( 幌 内 )
Aerial view (1976)
Aerial view (1976)
Data
Location in the network Terminus
Platform tracks 1
opening November 13, 1882
Conveyance June 19, 1987
location
City / municipality Mikasa
prefecture Hokkaidō
Country Japan
Coordinates 43 ° 13 '40 "  N , 141 ° 54' 8"  E Coordinates: 43 ° 13 '40 "  N , 141 ° 54' 8"  E
Height ( SO ) 70  m  TP
Railway lines

Decommissioned:

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The Horonai Station ( Jap. 幌内駅 , Horonai-eki ) is a former railway station on the Japanese island of Hokkaido . It was located in the Sorachi Sub-Prefecture , in the Mikasa Township area, and operated from 1882 to 1987. Since then it has been part of a railway museum.

description

Horonai was the eastern terminus of a 2.7 km long branch of the Horonai line , which branched off at Mikasa station. The station was in the district of Horonaichō, a previously important center of coal mining . It was oriented from west to east and had a track for passenger traffic. The station building stood on the north side of the facility. There were also five tracks for freight traffic and a turntable on the south side. The route continued eastwards around 900 meters to the Horonai coal mine, where it ended bluntly.

Railway Museum

The "Mikasa Railway Village" has been located around the station since 1987, the year it was closed. This museum about Hokkaidō's railway history is open from mid-April to mid-October. Two steam locomotives , one electric locomotive , six diesel locomotives , three diesel multiple units and numerous passenger and freight cars are on permanent display outdoors and in a newly constructed depot building . A train, consisting of a tank locomotive built by Nippon Sharyō in 1939 and two converted freight cars, travels a 300-meter-long section of the line in the station area.

  • Steam locomotive JNR class C12

  • Brake truck

  • Diesel locomotive DE10

  • Diesel multiple unit KiHa 56

  • Museum building

history

The state railway company Kan'ei Horonai Tetsudō opened the station on November 13, 1882. It was the eastern terminus of the first railway line on Hokkaidō, which led via Iwamizawa and Sapporo to the port of Temiya near Otaru . Initially, the route was only used to transport the coal mined in the area . Passenger traffic began on February 2, 1883. On December 11, 1889, the line, later referred to as the Horonai Line, became the property of the private mining and railway company Hokkaidō Tankō Tetsudō , but was sold back to the state on October 1, 1906. The Railway Office (later the Ministry of Railways ) was then responsible for the operation.

On March 21, 1898, the station was moved 860 meters to the west to its final location, so that freight traffic to the newly opened Horonai coal mine could be unbundled. The station building was initially on the left bank of the Mikasa-Horonai-gawa stream and was accessible via a short pedestrian bridge; two years later it was moved to the right bank. The Japanese State Railways stopped passenger services on November 1, 1972. After the privatization of the state railway on April 1, 1987, JR Freight took over freight traffic for a short time, until the line was finally closed on July 13, 1987.

The "Mikasa Railway Village" around the former station was opened on September 6, 1987.

Web links

Commons : Horonai Station  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Commons : Mikasa-Eisenbahndorf  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ JNR General Directorate Hokkaidō (ed.): 北海道 鉄 道 百年 史 (100 years of Hokkaidō railway history). Sapporo 1980.
  2. ↑ City of Mikasa (ed.): 新 三 笠 市 史, 2001, p. 274.
  3. ↑ 三 笠 鉄 道 村 開 村. Hokkaidō Shimbun, September 7, 1987.