Tappi-Kaitei Railway Station

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Tappi-Kaitei ( 竜 飛 海底 )
Tappi-Kaitei Tunnel of Hokkaido Railway Company.JPG
Platforms (June 2013)
Data
Location in the network Tunnel station
Platform tracks 2
opening March 13, 1988
Conveyance March 15, 2014
location
City / municipality Sotogahama
prefecture Aomori
Country Japan
Coordinates 41 ° 15 '26 "  N , 140 ° 20' 52"  E Coordinates: 41 ° 15 '26 "  N , 140 ° 20' 52"  E
Height ( SO ) -135  m  TP
Railway lines
List of train stations in Japan
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The Tappi Kaitei Station ( Jap. 竜飛海底駅 , Tappi Kaitei-eki ) is a train station in Japan . It is located on the Kaikyō Line , in the municipality of Sotogahama in Aomori Prefecture - more precisely in the Seikan Tunnel , the second longest railway tunnel in the world. The station is connected to the surface by a funicular and was served by trains from 1988 to 2013; since then it has continued to be used as an emergency exit.

description

The name suggests that the tunnel station is partly under the seabed ( 海底 , kaitei ) of Tsugaru Strait and partly under Cape Tappi , the northern end of the Tsugaru Peninsula . Along with Yoshioka-Kaitei , it is one of two train stations in the Seikan Tunnel, which opened in 1988 . With a depth of 135.0 m below sea level, it was the second deepest train station in the world during its 25 years of operation. In the event of fire or other emergencies, Shinkansen trains can still stop here and passengers can be evacuated. By cross-passages of the rail tunnel is every 40 m with the parallel connected service tunnel. This leads to a collection room and then to a fire protection room with a capacity of 500 people. Exhaust fans , video surveillance , infrared fire detectors and sprinkler systems also secure the system.

The passengers to be evacuated use the Seikan Tunnel Tappi Shakō Line from the fire protection room to the surface. This 778 m long funicular was originally built to transport workers and materials to the tunnel construction site. During normal operation, it is used to transport visitors to the Seikan Tunnel Museum from the exhibition hall next to the mountain station to the “adventure gallery” at tunnel level. The rooms next to the tunnel are open to the public as part of guided tours from mid-April to early November.

history

The station opened on March 13, 1988, along with the Kaikyō Line and the Seikan Tunnel. After prior notification, there was the possibility of changing to and from the funicular or taking part in a guided tour through the adjoining rooms and viewing the part of the exhibition located there. Entry and exit were only possible from one car. The most prominent visitors on July 23, 1990 were Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko .

On November 11, 2013, the last train according to the timetable stopped in Tappi-Kaitei. The formal closure of the station finally took place on March 15, 2014. Then tracks and safety measures were adapted to the Shinkansen specifications (the route of the Kaikyō line is partly identical to that of the high-speed line Hokkaidō-Shinkansen ). This also included dismantling the 84 cm narrow side platforms, as otherwise they would have hindered the passage of the high-speed trains. An express train running through the tunnel had to stop on April 3, 2015 due to smoke development on the underbody, whereupon the passengers were taken outside on the funicular.

Web links

Access to the tunnel station (August 2000)
Commons : Tappi-Kaitei Railway Station  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Naoki Tanemura: 最新 鉄 道 旅行 術 き っ ぷ 、 の り も の 、 や ど … 、 旅 の プ ラ ン ニ ン グ か ら 整理 ま で . JTB, Shinagawa 1997, ISBN 978-4-533-02640-9 , pp. 240 .
  2. ↑ a b Oskar Stalder: The Seikan tunnel in Japan - structure and challenge. In: Ferrum: News from the iron library. Eisenbibliothek , 2008, pp. 65–68 , accessed on December 18, 2018 .
  3. ^ Dan Morse: Japan Tunnels under the Ocean . In: Civil Engineering . tape 58 , no. 5 . American Society of Civil Engineers , Reston (Virgina) 1988, pp. 50-53 .
  4. ↑ Emperor And Empress Visit Aomori. Getty Images , July 23, 1990, accessed December 18, 2018 .
  5. ↑ 駅 の 営 業 終了 に つ い て. (PDF, 29 kB) JR Hokkaido , September 13, 2013, accessed on December 18, 2018 (Japanese).
  6. ↑ 平 成 26 年 3 月 ダ イ ヤ 改正 に つ い て. (PDF, 300 kB) JR Hokkaido , December 20, 2013, accessed on December 18, 2018 (Japanese).
  7. ↑ 特急 ス ー パ ー 白鳥 34 号 車 両 か ら 白煙 が 出 た 事 象 に つ い て. (PDF, 1.7 MB) JR Hokkaido , April 4, 2015, accessed December 18, 2018 (Japanese).