Kozawa Railway Station

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Kozawa ( 小 沢 )
北海道 小 沢 駅 跨線橋 .jpg
View of the train station (December 2011)
Data
Location in the network Through station
Platform tracks 2
opening July 18, 1904
location
City / municipality Kyōwa
prefecture Hokkaidō
Country Japan
Coordinates 42 ° 58 ′ 19 "  N , 140 ° 40 ′ 40"  E Coordinates: 42 ° 58 ′ 19 "  N , 140 ° 40 ′ 40"  E
Height ( SO ) 52  m  TP
Railway lines

JR Hokkaido

Decommissioned:

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The Kozawa Station ( Jap. 小沢駅 , Kozawa-eki ) is a train station on the Japanese island of Hokkaido . It is located in the Shiribeshi Sub-prefecture in the Kyōwa Township area .

description

Kozawa is a through station and former separation station on the Hakodate main line between Hakodate and Sapporo , Hokkaidō's main railway line . This is operated by the company JR Hokkaido . Regional trains run to Kutchan and Otaru every one to two hours . There is a bus stop nearby on the main road, where lines of the companies Hokkaidō Chūō Bus and Niseko Bus stop .

The station is on the outskirts of Kozawa and is oriented from the southeast to the northwest. It has two tracks, both of which are used for passenger traffic. These are located on a central platform that is connected to the station forecourt on the south side of the facility by a covered overpass; the reception building is slightly offset there . The third track on the house platform was removed.

Aerial view (1976)

history

The Hokkaidō Tetsudō railway company opened the section between Yamanichi and Kozawa on July 18, 1904. The station was then the terminus for almost three months. With the opening of the last missing section between Kozawa and Neppu on October 15, 1904, the Hakodate main line was completed. After the nationalization on July 1, 1907, the Railway Office (later the Railway Ministry ) was responsible.

A local company that Iwanaibashi tetsudō , took a horse-drawn at 14 March 1905 narrow-gauge railway in operation. It had a gauge of 762 mm and led from Kozawa to the port of Iwanai. After only seven years, it was shut down on May 11, 1911. The reason for this was the state's construction of the Iwanai Line , which runs largely parallel to it . It had the same gauge as the Hakodate main line, so that the reloading of goods could be omitted. It was opened on November 1, 1912.

For cost reasons, the Japanese State Railways stopped handling goods on March 1, 1982, and checked baggage on February 1, 1984. It also closed the Iwanai Line on July 1, 1985. 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 . The station has not been staffed since 1992.

Adjacent train stations

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 Lines
→
Kutchan Hakodate line Hakodate Main Line
JR Hokkaido 		Ginzan
Beginning Regional Iburi Line (1912–1985)
Japanese State Railways 		Kunitomi

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. 34-35 .
  2. ↑ JNR General Directorate Hokkaidō: 北海道 鉄 道 百年 史 (100 years of Hokkaidō railway history), Sapporo 1981.