Otoineppu train station

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Otoineppu ( 音 威 子 府 )
Otoineppu Station 201710.jpg
View of the train station (October 2017)
Data
Location in the network Through station
Platform tracks 2
abbreviation W61
opening November 5, 1912
location
City / municipality Otoineppu
prefecture Hokkaidō
Country Japan
Coordinates 44 ° 43 '45 "  N , 142 ° 15' 36"  E Coordinates: 44 ° 43 '45 "  N , 142 ° 15' 36"  E
Height ( SO ) 41  m  TP
Railway lines

JR Hokkaido

Decommissioned:

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The Otoineppu Station ( Jap. 音威子府駅 , Otoineppu-eki ) is a train station on the Japanese island of Hokkaido . It is located in Kamikawa Sub-Prefecture, Otoineppu Township area .

description

Otoineppu is a through station and former separation station on the Sōya 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 express trains of the type Super Sōya (consisting of tilting railcars ) 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 four times a day to Nayoro and three times a day to Wakkanai.

The station is on the outskirts and is oriented from the southeast to the northwest. It has four tracks, two of which are used for passenger traffic. These are located on a partially covered central platform , which is connected to the reception building on the south-west side of the facility by a covered overpass . There is also a restaurant in the building. To the south-east of the station there is a small, double-track depot for parking train service vehicles . In the forecourt of the station, buses of the Sōya Bus company stop .

Aerial view (1977)

history

The Railway Authority (later the Ministry of Railways ) put the section between Onnenai and Otoineppu into operation on November 5, 1912. It was actually planned to continue building immediately on the Sōya main line via Horonobe to Wakkanai. However, the Railway Authority decided to prefer a slightly longer alternative route along the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk . The first section of the Tenpoku Line from Otoineppu to Shō-Tombetsu was opened on November 7, 1914. Eight years later, Wakkanai was reached. The section from Otoineppu to Teshio-Nakagawa, opened on November 9, 1922, formed the first part of the originally planned route, which in 1926 also extended to Wakkanai.

For over half a century, Otoineppu was an important hub. In October 1970, took Japanese National Railways a siding to a wood chip plant in operation in December 1971 was followed by another siding at a Shell -Öltanklager. For cost reasons, the state railway stopped checking in and handling luggage on February 1, 1984, which also affected the sidings. 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 Tenpoku line on May 1, 1989, making Otoineppu a pure through station again. In 1990 the reception building was renovated.

Adjacent train stations

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 Lines
→
Sakkuru Sōya line Soya Main Line,
JR Hokkaido 		Osashima
Beginning Regional Tenpoku Line (1914–1989)
Japanese State Railways 		Kami-Otoineppu

Web links

Commons : Otoineppu 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 Shinbunsha, Sapporo 2002, ISBN 978-4-89453-220-5 , pp. 90-91 .
  2. ↑ Tanaka: 写真 で 見 る 北海道 の 鉄 道, pp. 266–267.