Ikushumbetsu Railway Station
| Ikushumbetsu ( 幾 春 別 ) | |
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 Aerial view (1976)
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| Data | |
| Location in the network | Terminus |
| Platform tracks | 1 |
| opening | October 10, 1888 |
| Conveyance | July 13, 1987 |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Mikasa |
| prefecture | Hokkaidō |
| Country | Japan |
| Coordinates | 43 ° 15 '38 " N , 141 ° 57' 25" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 103 m TP |
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| List of train stations in Japan | |
The Ikushumbetsu Station ( Jap. 幾春別駅 , Ikushumbetsu-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 1888 to 1987.
description
Ikushumbetsu was the eastern terminus of the Horonai Line , which branched off the Hakodate Main Line at Iwamizawa . The station was in the district of the same name, which used to be an important center of coal mining . It was oriented from west to east and had one track for passenger traffic and two more for freight traffic. The station building stood on the north side of the facility. On the south side there was a parking facility with a turntable . The route went east a few hundred meters to Kitasumi coal mine in north-chain is a siding for Sumitomo -Kohlebergwerk from.
history
In addition to the Iwamizawa - Horonai line, which has existed since 1882 , the state-owned railway company Kan'ei Horonai Tetsudō opened a branch line from Mikasa to Ikushumbetsu on December 10, 1888. To the east of the station, what was later known as the Horonai Line continued to the Kitasumi coal mine. On December 11 of the same year it went into the possession 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.
Also in 1906, the Sumitomo coal mine to the north of the station was given a siding . From 1916, an additional track ran parallel to the Horonai Line from the train station to the coal mine of the Tōhō Tankō company until a loading point was built there in 1927. From 1938 to 1955, the state forest authority operated the Mikasa forest railway . It was nine miles long and headed south from Ikushumbetsu Station.
In 1957 the Japanese State Railways withdrew the Horonai Line from the Kitasumi coal mine to the station, and on October 25, 1971, the siding to the Sumitomo coal mine was closed. For cost reasons, the state railway stopped handling goods on May 25, 1981, and checked baggage on February 1, 1984. The Horonai line survived the privatization of the state railway on April 1, 1987, if only for a short time. JR Hokkaido continued the passenger service until July 13, 1987 and then closed the line.
