Tomikawa Railway Station
| Tomikawa ( 富川 ) | |
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 View of the train station
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| Location in the network | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 1 |
| opening | October 1, 1913 |
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| City / municipality | Hidaka |
| prefecture | Hokkaidō |
| Country | Japan |
| Coordinates | 42 ° 31 '1 " N , 142 ° 1' 15" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 9 m TP |
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| List of train stations in Japan | |
The Tomikawa Station ( Jap. 富川駅 , Tomikawa-eki ) is a train station on the Japanese island of Hokkaido . It is located in the sub-prefecture Hidaka in the field of city Hidaka .
description
Tomikawa is a through station and former separation station on the Hidaka main line . This is operated by the JR Hokkaido railway company and runs from Tomakomai to Samani . There is only one track left, the crossing track has been removed. Due to storm damage, the line in this area is currently not passable, instead a rail replacement service is offered.
On the street in front of the train station there is a bus stop of the Dōnan Bus company .
history
To supply a paper mill in Tomakomai with wood, the Ōji Seishi concern built a small train to Tomikawa. The route opened on October 1, 1913 by Tomakomai Keibentetsudō ( 苫 小 牧 軽 便 鉄 道 ) led along the coast and had a gauge of 762 mm. A local company, the Saru Tetsudō ( 沙 流 鉄 道 ), then built another small train with the same gauge. It opened on August 21, 1922 and led inland to Hiratori; Horse-drawn wagons were used. Two years later, the station developed into a smaller traffic junction: On September 6, 1924, the Hidaka Takushoku Tetsudō ( 日 高 拓殖 鉄 道 ), another company founded by Ōji Seishi, opened the line from Tomikawa to Atsuga. This was an extension of the Tomakomai small railway that had opened eleven years earlier.
After the nationalization of both railways by Ōji Seishi in 1927, the stretch along the coast was named the Hidaka Line, and 16 years later it was renamed the Hidaka Main Line. The Ministry of Railways introduced in two stages, a Umspurung in the usual Cape gauge (1,067 mm): On November 26, 1929 by Tomakomai to Tomikawa and on 10 November 1931 further to the southeast. With the closure of the Saru Tetsudō on December 11, 1952, Tomikawa changed from a lane changing station to an ordinary through station.
From 1959 to 1986 the Japanese State Railways offered express trains from Sapporo to Samani with a stop in Tomikawa. On November 15, 1982, it stopped handling goods, and on February 1, 1984 also checked in luggage. 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 . The Hidaka main line southeast of Mukawa has been out of service since January 8, 2015 after strong tidal waves washed under the track bed and the damage made the line impassable.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c 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. 148-149 .
- ↑ a b Noriyuki Okamoto: 全国 軽 便 鉄 道 (National Small Railways) . JTB, Tokyo 1999, ISBN 978-4-533-03198-4 , pp. 35 .
- ↑ 日 高 線 厚 賀 ～ 大 狩 部 間 67k506m 付 近 に お け る 盛 土 流出 に つ い て. (PDF, 1.7 MB) JR Hokkaido, January 13, 2015, accessed August 2, 2016 (Japanese).