Utashinai Railway Station

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Utashinai ( 歌 志 内 )
Utashinai Railway Station (1986)
Utashinai Railway Station (1986)
Data
Location in the network Terminus
Platform tracks 1
opening July 5, 1891
Conveyance April 25, 1988
location
City / municipality Utashinai
prefecture Hokkaidō
Country Japan
Coordinates 43 ° 31 '19 "  N , 142 ° 2' 25"  E Coordinates: 43 ° 31 '19 "  N , 142 ° 2' 25"  E
Height ( SO ) 124  m  TP
Railway lines

Decommissioned:

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The Utashinai station ( Japanese 歌 志 内 駅 , Utashinai-eki ) is a former station on the Japanese island of Hokkaidō . It was located in Sorachi Sub-Prefecture in the Utashinai City area and operated from 1891 to 1988.

description

Utashinai was the eastern terminus of the 14.5 km long Utashinai Line , which branched off from the Hakodate Main Line in Sunagawa . The station was in the district of Honchochūō, a previously important center of coal mining . It was oriented from northwest to southeast and had one track for passenger traffic and two more for goods traffic. The station building stood on the north side of the facility. On the south side there was a parking facility with a turntable . The railway line led another 1.45 km further southeast to the Sorachi coal mine, where it ended bluntly. In addition to the east a two-kilometer-long chain siding to the top Utashinai coal mine from.

Aerial view (1976)

history

The private mining and railway company Hokkaidō Tankō Tetsudō opened the station on July 5, 1891, along with the entire Utashinai line to Sunagawa. On the same day, the access to the Sorachi coal mine also went into operation. On October 1, 1906, the Hokkaidō Tankō Tetsudō was nationalized, whereupon the Railway Office (later the Ministry of Railways ) was responsible. From 1914 the upper Utashinai coal mine could also be reached from the station, and in 1934 the station building was replaced by a new building.

In January 1953, the Sumitomo group stopped operations on the two sidings so that the coal was only loaded into the station itself. For reasons of cost, the Japanese State Railways stopped checking in luggage on February 1, 1984. As part of the privatization of the state railway, the station passed into the possession of JR Hokkaido on April 1, 1987 , while JR Freight carried out the remaining freight traffic. Finally, the Utashinai Line was shut down on April 25, 1988.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tetsu Ishino (Ed.): 停車場 変 遷 大 辞典 国 鉄 ・ JR 編 (station change directory JNR / JR) . JTB, Tokyo 1998, ISBN 4-533-02980-9 .
  2. ↑ a b c City of Utashinai (Ed.): 新歌 志 内 市 史, 1994.
  3. ↑ JNR General Directorate Hokkaidō (ed.): 北海道 鉄 道 百年 史 (100 years of Hokkaidō railway history). Sapporo 1980.