Matsumae Railway Station
| Matsumae ( 松 前 ) | |
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 View of the train station (1987)
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| Data | |
| Location in the network | Terminus |
| Platform tracks | 1 |
| opening | November 8, 1953 |
| Conveyance | February 1, 1988 |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Matsumae |
| prefecture | Hokkaidō |
| Country | Japan |
| Coordinates | 41 ° 25 '39 " N , 140 ° 6' 3" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 17 m TP |
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| List of train stations in Japan | |
The Matsumae station ( Japanese 松 前 駅 , Matsumae-eki ) is a former train station on the Japanese island of Hokkaidō . He was located in Oshima Sub-Prefecture, Matsumae City . The southernmost station in Hokkaidō was in operation from 1953 to 1988.
description
Matsumae was the southern terminus of the 50.8 km long Matsumae line from the direction of Kikonai . The station was located in the city center near the coast 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 continued about 200 meters further west to a blunt track. For this reason, Matsumae was not operationally a terminus, but a through station. On the north side there was a track for freight traffic with a turntable and loading ramp. Nothing has been preserved from the complex.
history
The Matsumae line had been built in several stages from 1937 and in 1946 extended to Oshima-Ōsawa station, just under six kilometers east of the city center. On November 8, 1953, the Japanese State Railways put the last missing section into operation. From 1963 to 1980 express trains ran from Matsumae via Kikonai to Hakodate . In 1976 the station building was replaced by a new building.
For cost reasons, the state railway stopped handling goods on November 15, 1982, and checked baggage on February 1, 1984. 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 . This shut down the entire Matsumae line on February 1, 1988.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Keisuke Imao: 日本 鉄 道 旅行 地 図 帳 (Japan Rail Travel Atlas ) . tape 1 Hokkaidō. Shinchosha, Tokyo 2008, ISBN 978-4-10-790019-7 , pp. 27 .
- ↑ 国 鉄 全線 各 駅 停車 (All stations of the Japanese State Railways) . tape 1 Hokkaidō. Shogakukan, Tokyo 1983, p. 63 .