Ochiai Station (Hokkaidō)

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Ochiai ( 落 合 野 )
JRHokkaido Ochiai-eki.JPG
View of the train station (July 2012)
Data
Location in the network Through station
Platform tracks 2
abbreviation T37
opening September 3, 1901
location
City / municipality Minamifurano
prefecture Hokkaidō
Country Japan
Coordinates 43 ° 7 '30 "  N , 142 ° 40' 8"  E Coordinates: 43 ° 7 '30 "  N , 142 ° 40' 8"  E
Height ( SO ) 410  m  TP
Railway lines

JR Hokkaido

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The Ochiai Station ( Jap. 落合駅 , Ochiai-eki ) is a train station on the Japanese island of Hokkaido . It is located in the Sorachi sub-prefecture in the Minamifurano Municipality area .

description

Ochiai is a through station on the single-track Nemuro main line , which runs from Takikawa via Obihiro and Kushiro to Nemuro . It is operated by the JR Hokkaido company. Regional trains run approximately every two hours from Takikawa via Furano to Shintoku . There is a Shimukappu Bus stop in front of the train station .

The station is oriented from west to east and has three tracks, two of which are used for passenger traffic. They are located on a central platform that is connected to the reception building on the south side of the facility by a covered overpass . Shintoku, the nearest train station to the east, is over 17 miles away.

history

Aerial view (1977)

The state company Hokkaidō Kansetsu Tetsudō had the order to promote the economic development of the island by building railway lines. For this purpose they built a route from Asahikawa towards the Hidaka Mountains . On September 3, 1901, she opened the section between Shikagoe and Ochiai. The station received a locomotive shed and was initially the eastern terminus for more than six years, as the line construction in the area of ​​the Karikachi Pass dragged on. The railway office responsible from 1905 (later the Ministry of Railways ) opened the still missing section Ochiai – Shintoku on September 8, 1907, with which there was a continuous connection between Asahikawa and Kushiro .

The mountain stretch beginning in Ochiai with the apex tunnel under the Karikachi Pass increasingly turned out to be a bottleneck due to the steep gradients. For this reason, the construction of a new route began in the 1960s, which turned off the old route in the station. On September 29, 1966, the Japanese State Railways took the new route with the Shinkarikachi tunnel into operation; a day later she shut down the mountain route. For cost reasons, the State Railroad stopped handling goods and checking in luggage on November 15, 1982. 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 .

Adjacent train stations

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Ikutora Nemuro line Nemuro Main Line
JR Hokkaido 		Shintoku

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kazuo Tanaka: 写真 で 見 る 北海道 の 鉄 道 (Hokkaidō's railroad in photos) . tape 1 . Hokkaidō Shimbunsha, Sapporo 2002, ISBN 978-4-89453-220-5 , pp. 312-313 .
  2. ↑ JNR General Directorate Hokkaidō (ed.): 北海道 鉄 道 百年 史 (100 years of Hokkaidō railway history), Sapporo 1981.
  3. ↑ Tanaka: 写真 で 見 る 北海道 の 鉄 道, pp. 314–315.