Shin-Asahikawa Railway Station

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Shin-Asahikawa ( 新 旭川 )
View of the train station (June 2004)
View of the train station (June 2004)
Data
Location in the network Separation station
Platform tracks 3
abbreviation A39
opening November 4, 1922
location
City / municipality Asahikawa
prefecture Hokkaidō
Country Japan
Coordinates 43 ° 46 '48 "  N , 142 ° 23' 5"  E Coordinates: 43 ° 46 '48 "  N , 142 ° 23' 5"  E
Height ( SO ) 115  m  TP
Railway lines

JR Hokkaido

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The Shin-Asahikawa station ( Japanese 新 旭川 駅 , Shin-Asahikawa-eki ) is a train station on the Japanese island of Hokkaidō . It is located in Kamikawa Sub-Prefecture, Asahikawa City area .

description

Shin-Asahikawa is a separation station northeast of the city center. It is on the Sōya main line , which runs north from Asahikawa Station via Nayoro to Wakkanai . From here the main Sekihoku line branches off towards the east via Engaru to Abashiri . Both lines are operated by the JR Hokkaido company. Regional trains run every two to three hours to Nayoro on the Sōya main line, and every one to three hours on the Sekihoku main line to Kamikawa (all trains start from Asahikawa). Express trains don't stop here.

The station is oriented from south to north and has four 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 west side of the facility by a covered overpass . There is a small facility for handling containers , and car transport vehicles are sporadically unloaded here.

Aerial view (1977)

history

The first section of the Sōya main line had already opened in 1898, but trains continued to run here without stopping for more than two decades. This changed on November 4, 1922, when the Ministry of Railways opened the first section of the Sekihoku main line to Aibetsu and the same day the Shin-Asahikawa station near the junction opened. The "National Paper Company" ( 国策パルプ工業 , Kokusaku Parupu Kōgyō ), later Nippon Paper Industries , opened in October 1939, a short siding to a paper mill near the station.

For cost reasons, the Japanese State Railways stopped checking in on April 1, 1984. As part of the privatization of the state railways, the station went into the possession of the new company JR Hokkaido on April 1, 1987 , while JR Freight was now responsible for freight traffic. The latter closed the siding in September 1997, but set up a small facility for handling containers in March 1988. The section of the Sōya main line leading through Shin-Asahikawa to the Kita-Asahikawa freight yard on the northern outskirts was electrified on May 10, 2003 .

Adjacent train stations

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 Lines
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Asahikawa-yojō Sekihoku line Sekihoku Main Line
JR Hokkaido 		Minami-Nagayama
Asahikawa-yojō Sōya line Soya Main Line,
JR Hokkaido 		Nagayama

Web links

Commons : Shin-Asahikawa Station  - Collection of pictures, 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. 100-101 .
  2. ↑ Satoru Sone: 週刊 歴 史 で め ぐ る 鉄 道 全 路線 国 鉄 ・ JR . tape 20 . Asahi Shimbunsha, Osaka 2009, p. 14 .