Minami-Wakkanai Railway Station

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Minami-Wakkanai ( 南 稚 内 )
View of the train station (October 2006)
View of the train station (October 2006)
Data
Location in the network Through station
Platform tracks 3
abbreviation W79
opening November 1, 1922
location
City / municipality Wakkanai
prefecture Hokkaidō
Country Japan
Coordinates 45 ° 23 '53 "  N , 141 ° 40' 58"  E Coordinates: 45 ° 23 '53 "  N , 141 ° 40' 58"  E
Height ( SO ) 5  m  TP
Railway lines

JR Hokkaido

Decommissioned:

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The Minami-Wakkanai train station ( Japanese 南 稚 内 駅 , Minami-Wakkanai-eki ) is a train station on the Japanese island of Hokkaidō . It is located in the Soya sub-prefecture in the area of ​​the city of Wakkanai .

description

Minami-Wakkanai is a through station and former separation station on the Soya main line . This leads from Asahikawa via Nayoro to Wakkanai and is operated by the company JR Hokkaido . All trains running here stop at this station. Two pairs of Super Sōya express trains (consisting of tilting rail vehicles ) connect the prefecture capital Sapporo with Asahikawa and Wakkanai every day . In addition, the Sarobetsu, which is made up of conventional rolling stock, is used on the same connection once a day . Regional trains run from Wakkanai to Otoineppu three times a day . There is a bus stop on the station forecourt, which is served by a city bus line operated by Sōya Bus .

The station is located south of the city center and faces southeast to northwest. It has three tracks, all of which are used for passenger traffic. They are located on the main platform and on a covered central platform , which is connected to the reception building on the northeast side of the facility by a covered overpass . Until 1952, the Minami-Wakkanai station was just under a kilometer to the northwest. It was a terminal station with a through track on the side. Hardly anything has survived from the once extensive storage and goods facilities, as most of the site has now been built over. Two depots , each with two tracks, are also used, one for parking trains and the other for railway service vehicles . There is also a turntable that is no longer in use .

  • Track plans of the Minami-Wakkanai station

  • 1924

  • 1941

  • 1975

history

Construction of the terminus station (before 1922)
Aerial view (1977)

From 1896 the state company built Hokkaidō Kansetsu Tetsudō and later the Ministry of Railways on the Sōya main line. On the one hand, the still scarcely populated north of Hokkaidō should be developed, on the other hand, a powerful connection to the prefecture of Karafuto on the then Japanese southern half of the island of Sakhalin should be created. It was more than a quarter of a century before the project was completed. The last section of the Sōya main line north of Otoineppu was postponed. Instead, an alternative route along the Sea of Okhotsk , the Tenpoku Line , emerged from 1912 . The last section between Onishibetsu and the outskirts of Wakkanai went into operation on November 1, 1922. On May 1, 1923, the Ministry of Railways set up a ferry line across La Pérouse Street to Ōdomari (now Korsakow ) on the southern tip of Sakhalin.

The railway ended in a terminal station with seven (later eight) tracks, the distance to the jetty was about two kilometers. Passengers to Sakhalin had to walk to the ferry while goods were transported in carts. In the meantime, work on the missing part of the Sōya main line had begun. The section towards the south to Kabutonuma was opened on June 25, 1924, two years later the route was completed and the northernmost city of Hokkaidō can be reached on two different routes. In order to improve the transfer relationships, the Ministry of Railways decided to extend the Sōya main line from the outskirts to a new station near the port. The opening of the section to the Wakkanai-minato port station took place on December 26, 1928. The extension was built as a branch line due to lack of space, which is why trains had to reset after a stop at the terminal station and then pass it on the only through track.

On February 1, 1939, the Wakkanai terminus was given the new name Minami-Wakkanai, while the previous name was transferred to the port station. The Japanese State Railways responsible from 1949 moved the Minami-Wakkanai station by about one kilometer to the south near the junction of the Soya main line and the Tenpoku line. It opened the new through station on November 6, 1952 and gave up the terminus, which significantly simplified operations. For cost reasons, the state railway stopped handling goods on April 1, 1983, and checked baggage on March 14, 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 . This shut down the Tenpoku line on May 1, 1989.

Adjacent train stations

←
 Lines
→
Bakkai Sōya line Soya Main Line,
JR Hokkaido 		Wakkanai
Uennai Regional Tenpoku Line (1922–1989)
Japanese State Railways 		The End

Web links

Commons : Minami-Wakkanai Train Station  - Collection of pictures, 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. 266-267 .
  2. ↑ Tanaka: 写真 で 見 る 北海道 の 鉄 道, pp. 90–91.
  3. ↑ Satoru Sone: 週刊 歴 史 で め ぐ る 鉄 道 全 路線 国 鉄 ・ JR . tape 20 . Asahi Shimbunsha, Osaka 2009, p. 15 .