Yūbari Railway Station
| Yūbari ( 夕 張 ) | |
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 View of the train station with the
Mount Racey Hotel behind it (July 2004) |
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| Data | |
| Location in the network | Terminus |
| Platform tracks | 1 |
| opening | November 1, 1892 / December 26, 1990 |
| Conveyance | April 1, 2019 |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Yūbari |
| prefecture | Hokkaidō |
| Country | Japan |
| Coordinates | 43 ° 3 '3 " N , 141 ° 58' 2" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 295 m TP |
| Railway lines | |
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Decommissioned: |
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| List of train stations in Japan | |
The Yūbari Station ( Japanese 夕 張 駅 , Yūbari-eki ) is a former train station on the Japanese island of Hokkaidō . It was located in Sorachi Sub-Prefecture in the Yūbari City area and was operational until 2019.
description
Yūbari is located at the end of a single-track branch line of the Sekishō line that was used until 2019 and began in Shin-Yūbari station and followed the upper reaches of the Yūbari River. For decades, the Yūbari station was about two kilometers further north, and the last used facility consisted of a single stub track . The design of the simple reception building resembles a chapel. It stands directly in front of the Mount Racey Hotel ( マ ウ ン ト レ ー ス イ , Mauntorēsui ) and opens up the winter sports area of the same name . The hotel handled the ticket sales on behalf of JR Hokkaido.
history
The mining and railway company Hokkaidō Tankō Tetsudō opened the Yūbari line between Oiwake and Yūbari on November 1, 1892 . It was primarily used to transport the coal mined in the Yūbari mining area . The terminus was on the site of the later coal history village ( 石炭 の 歴 史 村 , Sekitan no rekishi-mura ), a bankrupt theme park. After the nationalization of the Hokkaidō Tankō Tetsudō on July 1, 1906, the Railway Office (later the Ministry of Railways ) was responsible. It expanded the line to two tracks in 1912, but only twenty years later it had the second track removed.
Due to the rapidly declining importance of coal mining, the Japanese State Railways stopped freight traffic on May 1, 1978. From October 1, 1981, the Yūbari line was operationally a branch of the new Sekishō line. The state railway stopped checking in luggage on May 1, 1984 and shortened the route by 1.3 kilometers on October 13, 1985. However, the new terminus, which became the property of JR Hokkaido on April 1, 1987 as part of the privatization of the state railway , did not last long: On December 26, 1990, JR Hokkaido shortened the route by another 800 meters and took the terminus in front of Hotel Mount Racey in operation. This existed until the branch line was closed on April 1, 2019, since then a bus line has taken over the development.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b 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. 82-83 .
- ↑ 石 勝 線 （新 夕 張 ・ 夕 張 間） の 鉄 道 事業 廃 止 に つ い て. JR Hokkaido, March 23, 2019, accessed May 4, 2019 (Japanese).