Shintoku Railway Station

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Shintoku ( 新 得 野 )
JR Hokkaido Shintoku Station.jpg
View of the train station (August 2013)
Data
Location in the network Through station
Platform tracks 3
abbreviation K23
opening September 8, 1907
location
City / municipality Shintoku
prefecture Hokkaidō
Country Japan
Coordinates 43 ° 4 '57 "  N , 142 ° 49' 57"  E Coordinates: 43 ° 4 '57 "  N , 142 ° 49' 57"  E
Height ( SO ) 187  m  TP
Railway lines

JR Hokkaido

Decommissioned:

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The Shintoku Station ( Jap. 新得駅 , Shintoku-eki ) is a train station on the Japanese island of Hokkaido . It is located in Tokachi Sub-Prefecture, Shintoku Township area .

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Shintoku is a through station and former separation station on the Nemuro main line , which runs from Takikawa via Obihiro and Kushiro to Nemuro . The station is also the starting point of the Sekishō line via Shin-Yūbari to Minami-Chitose . Both lines are operated by the JR Hokkaido company.

Long-distance traffic is well developed, all trains stop here. The Super Ōzora express trains run six times a day from Sapporo to Kushiro and back, the Super Tokachi five times a day from Sapporo to Obihiro and back. Shintoku is the terminus of all trains in regional traffic. On the Nemuro main line, regional trains run approximately every one to two hours to Kushiro and every two hours (with a five-hour break in operation at lunchtime) to Takikawa. On the other hand, no regional traffic is offered on the Sekishō line.

Several bus routes operated by the Hokkaidō Takushoku Bus company and the Shintoku municipal bus company run from the station forecourt .

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The station is oriented from north to south and has seven tracks, three of which are used for passenger traffic. They are located on the house platform and on a covered central platform . The latter is connected to the reception building on the east side of the facility by a covered overpass . There is also a car rental company from the Eki-rent-a-car chain ( 駅 レ ン タ カ ー , Eki-rentakā ) in the station.

West of Shintoku, the Nemuro main line and the Sekishō line share the same route over a length of over 24 km ; they split at the Kami-Ochiai junction in the Shinkarikachi tunnel. Ochiai , the closest station to the west on the Nemuro Main Line, is over 28 km away, and Tomamu on the Sekishō Line is more than 33 km away.

1995 Shintoku scene station was a continuation of the film Doramas Kita no kunikara ( 北の国から ) of Fuji Television .

history

View of the track system
Aerial view (1977)

The state company Hokkaidō Kansetsu Tetsudō had the order to promote the economic development of the island by building railway lines. This also included a route through the Hidaka Mountains to the east of the island. Starting from Asahikawa and Kushiro , several sections were put into operation in quick succession. After the state lines had been transferred to the newly created Railway Authority (later the Railway Ministry ) in 1905 , the section between Ochiai and Obihiro with a crest tunnel under the Karikachi Pass was still missing . The opening of the still outstanding mountain route with the Shintoku station took place on September 8, 1907.

In 1924, the private railway company Hokkaidō Takushoku Tetsudō began building a branch line from Shintoku to Kami-Shihoro. The first section to Shikaoi was put into operation on December 15, 1928. A year later, the entire 54.3 km long route was completed. The mountain stretch beginning in Shintoku 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.

The Hokkaidō Takushoku Tetsudō put the branch line down on October 1, 1968 and replaced it with a bus line. On October 1, 1981, the state railway took the Sekishō line, branching off west of Shintoku, into operation, making a significantly shorter connection to Sapporo available. For cost reasons, it gave up the cargo handling on November 15, 1982, on March 14, 1985, it stopped the baggage check and closed the no longer needed round locomotive shed . 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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Ochiai Nemuro line Nemuro Main Line
JR Hokkaido 		Tokachi-Shimizu
Tomamu Sekishō line Sekishō Line
JR Hokkaido 		The End
Minami Shintoku Regional Hokkaidō Takushoku Tetsudō
(1928–1968) 		The End

Web links

Commons : Shintoku Train Station  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sone Satoru (Ed.): 週刊 歴 史 で め ぐ る 鉄 道 全 路線 国 鉄 ・ JR . tape 24 . Asahi Shimbun shuppan, Tokyo 2009, p. 11, 14-15 .
  2. ↑ 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 .
  3. ↑ 地方 鉄 道 運輸 開始 (commissioning of local railways). Japanese Government Gazette, December 24, 1928; accessed August 10, 2016 (Japanese).
  4. ↑ Tanaka: 写真 で 見 る 北海道 の 鉄 道, pp. 314–315.
  5. ↑ Tanaka: 写真 で 見 る 北海道 の 鉄 道, pp. 82–83