Iwanai Railway Station
| Iwanai ( 岩 内 ) | |
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 Former train station (2005)
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| Data | |
| Location in the network | Terminus |
| Platform tracks | 1 |
| opening | November 1, 1912 |
| Conveyance | July 1, 1985 |
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| City / municipality | Ivanai |
| prefecture | Hokkaidō |
| Country | Japan |
| Coordinates | 42 ° 59 ′ 1 ″ N , 140 ° 30 ′ 59 ″ E |
| Height ( SO ) | 4 m TP |
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| List of train stations in Japan | |
The Iwanai Station ( Jap. 岩内駅 , Iwanai-eki ) is a former railway station on the Japanese island of Hokkaido . It was located in Shiribeshi Sub-Prefecture, in the Iwanai City area, and operated from 1912 to 1985.
description
Iwanai was the western terminus of the 14.9 km long Iwanai Line , which branched off from the Hakodate Main Line in Kozawa . The station was located in the city center in the immediate vicinity of the port and was oriented from east to west. Finally, he still had a track for passenger traffic, with the reception building on the south side of the facility. The line did not end in the actual station, but led about 100 meters further west to a blunt-ended track on which there was a goods shed . For this reason, Iwanai was not operationally a terminus, but a through station. The tracks of a mine railway stretched between the passenger station and the port basin to the north of it . There, coal from the Hossoku mine was loaded onto cargo ships. After the line was closed, all railway systems were removed.
history
From 1905 to 1911, a combined Kleinbahn the private company Iwanaibashi tetsudō the Kozawa station with the port of Iwanai. It was 17.8 km long, had a gauge of 762 mm and was pulled by horses. After its closure, the Railway Authority (later the Ministry of Railways ) built the approximately three kilometers shorter Cape- gauge Iwanai Line and opened it on November 1, 1912.
The mining company Kayanuma Tankō transported hard coal from the Hossoku mine by means of a cable car to Iwanai from 1931 . This was replaced on October 27, 1946 by a Cape-gauge mine railway, 6.3 km in length, which connected to the existing railway network at Iwanai station. In 1949 the Japanese State Railways built a new station building. On September 26, 1954, Typhoon Marie passed over Iwanai; a major fire triggered by this destroyed 3,300 houses in the city, including the train station. The then erected new building was completed on December 27, 1955.
In the 1950s, the State Railroad planned to extend the Iwanai Line along the coast by 43.9 km. She should at Yubetsu on track society Suttsu tetsudō the station Kuromatsunai meet with. A groundbreaking ceremony took place on December 24, 1972 , but the project was abandoned shortly afterwards.
The mine railway was in operation until November 12, 1962. On February 1, 1984, the state railway stopped freight traffic and baggage check-in, and on July 1, 1985, it shut down the Iwanai line. After a renovation, the reception building has served as a service area since 1993 ( Michi no eki ). A bus station stands on part of the former track field .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Japanese State Railways, General Directorate Hokkaidō (ed.): 北海道 鉄 道 百年 史 (100- year history of the Hokkaidō railway) . tape 2 . Sapporo 1981.
- ↑ a b 茅 沼 炭化 工業 専 用 鉄 道 の 想 い 出. In: Tetsudō Fan , issue 377, September 1992.
- ↑ 岩 内 町 史 (History of the City of Iwanai), 1969, p. 625.
- ↑ Japanese State Railways, General Directorate Hokkaidō (ed.): 北海道 鉄 道 百年 史 (100- year history of the Hokkaidō railway) . tape 2 . Sapporo 1981.