Naka-Yūbetsu Railway Station
| Naka-Yūbetsu ( 中 湧 別 ) | |
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 today's Railway Museum (May 2009)
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| Location in the network | Separation station |
| Platform tracks | 3 |
| opening | November 21, 1916 |
| Conveyance | May 1, 1989 |
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| City / municipality | Yūbetsu |
| prefecture | Hokkaidō |
| Country | Japan |
| Coordinates | 44 ° 11 '7 " N , 143 ° 35' 45" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 15 m TP |
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| List of train stations in Japan | |
The Naka-Yūbetsu station ( Japanese 中 湧 別 駅 , Naka-Yūbetsu-eki ) is a former train station on the Japanese island of Hokkaidō . It was located in the Okhotsk Sub-prefecture in the Yūbetsu City area and was in operation from 1916 to 1989.
description
Naka-Yūbetsu was a separation station on the Nayoro Main Line . Coming from Engaru in the south, it was divided here into the main north-west route to Nayoro and the branch route northward to Yūbetsu . Likewise, the Yūmō line to Abashiri branched off here to the east . The station in the Nakayūbetsu district was oriented from south to north and had three tracks for passenger traffic. These were located on the main platform and on a central platform that was connected to the station building on the west side of the facility by a covered overpass . There were also several tracks for freight traffic and a small depot with a turntable .
The disused station has served as the location of the Naka Yūbetsu Railway Museum since April 1, 1993. The station building has been demolished, but the central platform, the wooden overpass and a short section of track have been preserved. Four passenger and freight cars are permanently parked there. A small exhibition on railway history can be found in one of these cars. Other objects are shown in the neighboring TOM cultural center. In addition to a ballroom and a manga museum, it also contains a library with a railway department. A Michi no eki restaurant with an onsen is located on part of the former track field .
history
The Railway Authority (later the Ministry of Railways ) opened the station on November 21, 1916, along with the Kaisei– Yūbetsu section of the Yūbetsu Line ( 湧 別 線 , Yūbetsu-sen ). In 1919 the paper company Fuji Seishi built a forest railway starting in Naka-Yūbetsu . It was horse drawn and operated until 1930. On March 25, 1921, a section of the Nayoro Line ( 名 寄 線 , Nayoro-sen ) between Naka-Yūbetsu and Okoppe was opened. The Ministry of Railways merged the Yūbetsu Line and the Nayoro Line ( Engaru - Nayoro ) on October 1, 1932 to form the Nayoro Main Line. On October 20, 1932, the opening of a section of the Yūmō line from Naka-Yūbetsu to Kerochi followed; It took another two decades to complete the entire route to Abashiri .
The Japanese State Railways , responsible from 1949, replaced the station building with a new building in 1958. For cost reasons, it stopped handling goods on November 15, 1982, and checked baggage on February 1, 1984. The Yūmō Line was shut down on March 20, 1987. A few days later, on April 1, 1987, the station became the property of the new company JR Hokkaido . On May 1, 1989, this also shut down the Nayoro main line, including the branch line to Yūbetsu.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Shunzō Miyawaki, Katsumasa Harada: 国 鉄 全線 各 駅 停車 1 北海道 690 駅 . Shogakukan, Tokyo 1983, ISBN 978-4-09-395101-2 , pp. 212 .
- ↑ Atsushi Shirakawa: 全国 保存 鉄 道 III 東 日本 編 . JTB Publishing, Tokyo 1998, ISBN 978-4-533-03096-3 , pp. 52 .
- ↑ 文化 セ ン タ ー TOM. City of Yūbetsu, 2017, accessed July 21, 2017 (Japanese).
- ↑ a b JNR General Directorate Hokkaidō (ed.): 北海道 鉄 道 百年 史 (100 years of Hokkaidō railway history), Sapporo 1981.
- ↑ Yūbetsu History Commission (ed.): 湧 別 町 百年 史 (100 Years of History of the City of Yūbetsu), Yūbetsu 1982.
- ↑ 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. 200 .