Shibetsu Railway Station

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Shibetsu ( 士 別 )
View of the train station (June 2004)
View of the train station (June 2004)
Data
Location in the network Through station
Platform tracks 2
abbreviation W42
opening 5th August 1900
location
City / municipality Shibetsu
prefecture Hokkaidō
Country Japan
Coordinates 44 ° 10 '22 "  N , 142 ° 23' 17"  E Coordinates: 44 ° 10 '22 "  N , 142 ° 23' 17"  E
Height ( SO ) 128  m  TP
Railway lines

JR Hokkaido

Decommissioned:

  • Shibetsu train
List of train stations in Japan
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The Shibetsu Station ( Japanese 士 別 駅 , Shibetsu-eki ) is a train station on the Japanese island of Hokkaidō . It is located in Kamikawa Sub-Prefecture, Shibetsu City .

description

Shibetsu is a through station and former connecting 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 . There are also regional trains between Asahikawa and Nayoro every one to two hours . There is a bus stop in front of the train station, which is served by several city and regional lines operated by Shibetsu Kidō and Dohoku Bus .

The station is west of the city center and faces south to north. It has four tracks, two of which are used for passenger traffic. These are located on a covered central platform that is connected to the reception building on the east side of the facility by a covered overpass .

history

Aerial view (1977)

The state company Hokkaidō Kansetsu Tetsudō had the order to open up the still hardly populated north of Hokkaidō by building a railway line. On August 5, 1900, the section between Wassamu and Shibetsu was opened. The station was the northern terminus for three years, until the opening of the section to Nayoro on September 3, 1903.

A local company called Shibetsu Kidō opened a forest railway on June 1, 1920 , which transported wood to paper mills in the city on behalf of the state forestry agency. It was a horse-drawn tram with a gauge of 762 mm. It led first to Jōshibetsu, five years later to Okushibetsu. The railway with a length of 21.4 km was switched to steam operation in 1928. Shibetsu Kidō set the rail traffic on October 1, 1959 and developed into a bus company. On October 21, 1936 the company Nippontensaiseitō (Nippon Beet Sugar Co.) opened a sugar factory in Shibetsu and connected it with a 3.1 km long siding with the Sōya main line.

The Japanese State Railways replaced the previous station building with a new one in 1966. For cost reasons, it stopped checking in luggage on March 14, 1985; on November 1, 1986, it closed the siding to the sugar factory and also gave up other cargo handling. 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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 Lines
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Kita-Kembuchi Sōya line Soya Main Line,
JR Hokkaido 		Shimo Shibetsu

Web links

Commons : Shibetsu Station  - Collection of images, 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. 314 .
  2. ↑ Eiichi Aoki: 北海道 私 鉄 め ぐ り . Neko Publishing, Tokyo 2004, ISBN 4-7770-5056-4 .