Yūbetsu Railway Station
| Yūbetsu ( 湧 別 ) | |
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 Monument on the site of the former train station
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| Location in the network | Terminus |
| Platform tracks | 1 |
| opening | November 21, 1916 |
| Conveyance | May 1, 1989 |
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| City / municipality | Yūbetsu |
| prefecture | Hokkaidō |
| Country | Japan |
| Coordinates | 44 ° 13 '26 " N , 143 ° 37' 10" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 4 m TP |
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| List of train stations in Japan | |
The Yubetsu Station ( Jap. 湧別駅 , Yubetsu-eki ) is a former railway station on the Japanese island of Hokkaido . It was located in the Okhotsk Sub-prefecture in the Yūbetsu City area and was in operation from 1916 to 1989.
description
Yūbetsu was the northern terminus of a 4.9 km long branch line of the Nayoro main line , which branched off in Naka-Yūbetsu . The station was in the Sakaemachi district, about half a kilometer from the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk . It was oriented from south to north and had a track for passenger traffic. The platform and the wooden station building stood on the west side of the facility, the track ended bluntly around 100 meters further north. Before the cessation of freight traffic, the station had two additional tracks, mainly for loading wood.
Nothing of the complex has been preserved, the area has been built over with a fire station and a cultural center. A small memorial in front of the fire station reminds of the former train station.
history
The Railway Authority (later the Ministry of Railways ) opened the station on November 21, 1916, along with the Kaisei – Yūbetsu section of the Yūbetsu Line ( 湧 別 線 , Yūbetsu-sen ). On October 1, 1932, the Yūbetsu line and the Nayoro line ( Engaru - Naka-Yūbetsu - Nayoro ) were merged to form the Nayoro main line. The local railway company Yūbetsu Kidō opened a 6.2 km long small railway on February 12, 1930 . It had a gauge of 762 mm, had diesel railcars and ran from Yūbetsu station to Teinei on the banks of Lake Saroma . It was shut down nine years later on September 1, 1939.
For cost reasons, the Japanese State Railways stopped handling goods on December 1, 1978, and checked baggage on February 1, 1984. As of November 1, 1986, the station was no longer manned and five months later, on April 1, 1987, as part of the privatization of the state railway, it was owned by the new company JR Hokkaido . This shut down the entire Nayoro main line on May 1, 1989.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Shunzō Miyawaki, Katsumasa Harada: 国 鉄 全線 各 駅 停車 1 北海道 690 駅 . Shogakukan, Tokyo 1983, ISBN 978-4-09-395101-2 , pp. 212 .
- ↑ JNR General Directorate Hokkaidō (ed.): 北海道 鉄 道 百年 史 (100 years of Hokkaidō railway history), Sapporo 1981.