Kami-Sunagawa Railway Station
| Kami-Sunagawa ( 上 砂 川 ) | |
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 Former reception building (May 2006)
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| Data | |
| Location in the network | Terminus |
| Platform tracks | 1 |
| opening | November 5, 1918 |
| Conveyance | May 16, 1994 |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Kamisunagawa |
| prefecture | Hokkaidō |
| Country | Japan |
| Coordinates | 43 ° 28 '48 " N , 141 ° 59' 25" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 112 m TP |
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| List of train stations in Japan | |
The Kami-Sunagawa Station ( Japanese 上 砂 川 駅 , Kami-Sunagawa-eki ) is a former train station on the Japanese island of Hokkaidō . It was located in Sorachi Sub-Prefecture in Kamisunagawa Township and operated from 1918 to 1994.
description
Kami-Sunagawa was the eastern terminus of the 7.3 km long Kamisunagawa branch line , operationally part of the Hakodate main line . It branched off from this in Sunagawa and followed the river of the same name in an easterly direction. The station was on the eastern edge of the city and was oriented from northwest to south, with the track system exhibiting a slight bend. One track was reserved for passenger traffic, with the reception building on the south side of the area. Another five tracks were used for extensive freight traffic. The line did not end in the station itself, but around three hundred meters south of it at a stump track .
Little has been preserved of the once extensive track system. In 2010 the station building was moved a few meters. The former waiting room houses an exhibition on various film and television productions for which the train station served as a backdrop (including Eki Station ). A brakeman's car and a passenger car are permanently parked on the former platform and can be viewed.
history
In 1914, after intensive geological investigations , the Mitsui Group put an important mine into operation. A rail link to Sunagawa Station was built to develop it . It was opened on November 5, 1918 and initially only served freight traffic. The Ministry of Railways took over operations on August 1, 1926 and introduced passenger traffic on the same day. In 1937 the station received a new station building and a pull-out track , in 1943 a loading track to the mine and a coal processing plant .
In 1968 the Japanese State Railways added a second loading platform, but removed it again eleven years later, as the output had now started to drop significantly. For cost reasons, the state railway gave up the baggage check on February 1, 1984. Due to the closure of the mine on March 24, 1987, it also stopped freight traffic. As part of the privatization of the state railway, passenger traffic was transferred to the new company JR Hokkaido eight days later, on April 1, 1987 . From the same day on, the station was no longer manned. On May 16, 1994, JR Hokkaido closed the Kamisunagawa branch line.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ 北海道 の 鉄 道 廃 線 跡 . Hokkaido Shimbun, Sapporo 2009, ISBN 978-4-89453-612-8 , pp. 23 .
- ↑ 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. 118-119 .
- ↑ a b Kamisunagawa History Commission (ed.): 新 上 砂 川 町 史 (New History of the City of Kamisunagawa) . Kamisunagawa 1988.
- ↑ Kazuo Tanaka: 写真 で 見 る 北海道 の 鉄 道 (Hokkaidō's railroad in photos) . tape 1 . Hokkaidō Shinbunsha, Sapporo 2002, ISBN 978-4-89453-220-5 , pp. 218-219 .