Shiodome freight yard

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Shiodome ( 汐 留 )
View of the old Shimbashi station (1899)
View of the old Shimbashi station (1899)
Data
Location in the network Terminus
opening October 14, 1872
(as Shimbashi)
Conveyance November 1, 1986
location
City / municipality Minato
prefecture Tokyo
Country Japan
Coordinates 35 ° 39 '57 "  N , 139 ° 45' 41"  E Coordinates: 35 ° 39 '57 "  N , 139 ° 45' 41"  E
Railway lines
List of train stations in Japan
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The freight station Shiodome ( Jap. 汐留駅 , Shiodome-eki ) was a freight yard of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) in the district of Minato in Tokyo . It was in operation from 1914 to 1986. The Shimbashi station ( 新橋 駅 , Shimbashi-eki ), the first main station in Tokyo and the starting point of the Tōkaidō main line , had previously been on the same site since 1872 .

history

The first railway in Japan planned by Edmund Morel was provisionally put into operation on June 12, 1872 between Shinagawa and Yokohama (today's Sakuragichō station ). Completion of the last missing section from Shinagawa to Shimbashi was delayed by around four months. On October 14, 1872, Tokyo's first main train station was officially opened by Emperor Meiji , who then drove the 29 km long route to Yokohama in an imperial car built especially for the occasion. Freight traffic from Shimbashi began eleven months later, on September 15, 1873.

In the following four decades, the terminus station fulfilled its intended purpose. Numerous receptions for foreign dignitaries took place here, including for the former American President Ulysses S. Grant (1878), the future British King George V (1881) and the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand (1893). With the commissioning of the new Tokyo station , the Railway Authority ceased passenger traffic on December 20, 1914 and renamed the station, which was only used for freight traffic, to Shiodome. The previous name went to the Karasumori station (now Shimbashi ), which opened in 1909 and is located a little further to the west .

The predominantly wooden station building burned down completely in the Great Kantō earthquake in 1923 , and a sober functional building for the handling of goods was built in its place eleven years later. The Japanese State Railways continued to use the freight yard until November 1, 1986 . The new Shiodome Sio-Site business district with several high-rise office buildings was built on the 31 hectare site between 1995 and 2002 . In 2003 a faithful replica of the original reception building was built, which is used for exhibitions related to the railway.

photos

  • Replica of the reception building (2007)

  • Foundation of a former turntable (1993)

  • Train in Shimbashi Station, woodcut by Utagawa Hiroshige III. (1875)

  • Reception of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (1893)

Web links

Commons : Shiodome freight yard or old Shimbashi station  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dan Free: Early Japanese Railways 1853-1914: Engineering Triumphs That Transformed Meiji-era Japan . Turtle Publishing, Clarendon 2014, ISBN 978-4-8053-1290-2 , pp. 77-80 .
  2. ↑ Free: Early Japanese Railways 1853-1914. P. 84.
  3. ↑ Free: Early Japanese Railways 1853-1914. Pp. 256-257.
  4. ↑ 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 , pp. 41 .
  5. ↑ Supporting local cultural activities. East Japan Railway Culture Foundation, accessed July 31, 2018 .