Shimizusawa Railway Station

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Shimizusawa ( 清水 沢 )
Shimizusawa station03.JPG
View of the train station (October 2012)
Data
Location in the network Separation station
Platform tracks 1
opening February 16, 1897
Conveyance April 1, 2019
location
City / municipality Yūbari
prefecture Hokkaidō
Country Japan
Coordinates 42 ° 59 '53 "  N , 142 ° 0' 25"  E Coordinates: 42 ° 59 '53 "  N , 142 ° 0' 25"  E
Height ( SO ) 198  m  TP
Railway lines

Decommissioned:

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The Shimizusawa Station ( Jap. 清水沢駅 , Shimizusawa-eki ) is a former railway station on the Japanese island of Hokkaido . It was located in Sorachi Sub-Prefecture in the territory of Yūbari City and operated from 1897 to 2019.

description

Shimizusawa was a separation station on the Yūbari branch of the Sekishō line . It led from Shin-Yūbari to Yūbari station and was last operated by the JR Hokkaido company. From this branched off the Bahnyūbari railway line of the Mitsubishi concern.

The former train station is in the center of the Shimizusawa district and faces south to north. During its heyday it had five tracks due to the heavy freight traffic, and in the end only one remained. It is on the outside of the former central platform , on which there is a small shelter. The earlier covered overpass, which had lost its function, was demolished in 2005 and replaced by an asphalt path between the platform and the station building on the east side of the facility.

history

Aerial view (1976)

The mining and railroad company Hokkaidō Tankō Tetsudō opened on November 1, 1892 the Yūbari line (夕 張 線, Yūbari-sen ) between Oiwake and Yūbari . It was primarily used to transport the coal mined in the Yūbari mining area to the port of Muroran . The resulting place Shimizusawa received five years later, on February 16, 1897, its own train station. After the nationalization of the Hokkaidō Tankō Tetsudō on October 1, 1906, the Railway Office (later the Ministry of Railways ) was responsible.

The Mitsubishi group started operating several hard coal mines in a side valley and built a branch line in Shimizusawa to develop them. The Ōyūbari railway line opened on June 1, 1911. From October 1, 1981, the Yūbari line was part of the Sekishō line . As part of the privatization of the Japanese State Railways , the station went into the possession of the new company JR Hokkaido on April 1, 1987 . Mitsubishi closed the Ōyūbari railway line on July 22, 1987, and two days later JR Freight ceased freight traffic. The tracks were then gradually dismantled. The station has not been staffed since 2015. Finally, on April 1, 2019, JR Hokkaido also shut down the Yūbari branch of the Sekishō Line; since then the place has been accessed by a bus line.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Satoru Sone: 週刊 歴 史 で め ぐ る 鉄 道 全 路線 国 鉄 ・ JR . tape 24 . Asahi Shimbunsha, Osaka 2009, p. 14-15 .
  2. ↑ Tetsudō fan . tape 3 , No. 8. Koyusha, Naha 1995, pp. 67 .
  3. ↑ 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. 82-83 .
  4. ↑ 石 勝 線 （新 夕 張 ・ 夕 張 間） の 鉄 道 事業 廃 止 に つ い て. JR Hokkaido, March 23, 2019, accessed May 4, 2019 (Japanese).